Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-5407586-20150624095943/@comment-5936871-20150627181700

I've read over all of this discussion, and I still believe that Explosion Release = Earth + Lightning. The clay isn't special, it's just clay. Deidara takes the clay into his mouths, infuses them with explosion release chakra, and then makes them detonate. Sasuke's lightning disrupted and neutralized the chakra in the clay because one of the main component of explosion release is earth. Sasuke's lightning chakra would do nothing to regular clay, his chakra stopped them from detonating by overloading them to disrupt the balance of lightning and earth within them, therefore making them unable to explode and neutralizing them.