Talk:Dust/@comment-172.2.74.190-20151228064508/@comment-4010415-20151228072932

Fire (red), water (blue), air (green), and lightning (yellow) are primaries, judging by World of Remnant: Dust. WoR: Dust said that there are four basic naturally-occurring (primary) types of Dust.

In Volume 1, Ruby sneezed on red, dark blue, and yellow Dust, and it created fire, ice, and lightning. So, it's possible that dark blue is ice, not cyan.

Where did you get the idea that "purple makes clouds"? The only thing we have to judge purple by is one of Blake's clones in No Brakes, but even then, we aren't completely sure if that was a Dust clone or not.

I'm pretty sure that purple is not steam, by the way.

Winter made a cloudy cover to hide in during her fight against Qrow, and guess what color Dust she has in her rapier: Light blue.

Not purple.

My best guess is that mixing Dust acts a lot more like a chemical reaction, where the color of the new type does not always make sense. For example, I've seen someone mix two chemicals that were both clear and colorless, and the result was an opaque, bright yellow liquid.

There is no such thing as black Dust, as far as we've seen.

Weiss using white Dust to make a tornado was an error. In Never Miss a Beat, purple Dust was lined up with Myrtenaster's exhaust port for both the tornado and the ice. They cannot both be purple. The tornado was most likely a use of air Dust, but they didn't put green Dust in Myrtenaster (even though Myrtenaster has had green Dust in it before, in Volume 2).

We don't see what color Dust Mercury is using. The bullets on his boots are metal and don't give us a view of the Dust inside.

Overall...

I'm pretty damn sure that one color of Dust is not going to do multiple different things. Monty color coded Dust for a reason, so we would be able to tell what is going on. If each color could do multiple different things, he might as well have left Dust all one color like he originally planned to do.