User blog comment:TheNewProtagonist/Dust is actually kinda dumb./@comment-217.83.156.153-20130818134826

i never saw dust technology as something like magic. Sure the way it is up to now it might have some flaws but most of the time dust and it's effects are explainable.

Dust excists in different colors which react in different ways. i gonna name a few and try to explain what they did so far.

red: fire (Ep 1 and 2 "Rubys explosion") and some kinda strenght enhancement propapbly (white trailor).

Yang also uses red dust bullets and her burning can be explanied by the growing amount of red dust particles in the air therefore it's no dust - no burning.

purple:  seems to be related to electricity. in Ep1 Glynda was controlling the rubble by making use of purple dust. By creating an electromagnetic field via dust she was ablue to use the rubble for attacking not by controlling the rubble itself but the metalpieces in it.

in the comments it was asked wether or not dust can be mixed. The white trailer already answered that. it is possible. Weiss final attack was making use of all six dust chambers at the same time resulting a white glow in all of them.

i guess my english fail again. i hope it wasnt too bad :D