Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4784525-20131010155204/@comment-3146930-20131027142319

Dilydaly123 wrote: I thought dust was "refined", and could use almost anything as a trigger.

Dust can be mined and refined by those that have the technology. It is also apparently sold in stores right over the counter. However as we have seen, there are two ways to use Dust (in combat anyway). You could be like Nora and use it in explosive shells that you can fire at your enemies. You could also be like Weiss or Glynda and use Glyphs to manipulate the Dust to act as you want it to. However according to Pyrrha, creating those Glyphs is a Semblance and only certain people have the power to make them. In combat, most people probably use Dust as Nora does, if they use Dust at all.