Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20150706220753/@comment-25555436-20150718000624

Phantomlink959 wrote: no type has been officially called soot, and we haven't seen anything like it in the show, but it has been mentioned dust can be combined into different forms. Yes, but, smoke still isn't elemental. And even if Dust is elemental, Semblances by themselves are not.

Sure, it can interact with Dust, but by itself isn't elemental.