where does the white go when the snow melts?

Answer 1

The white is the color that is reflected to our eyes when it reflects off a pack of snow. As snow accumulates there are millions of surfaces that this light can reflect from. You can not see through the snow even though it is frozen water because of this.

If you look through a microscope at one snow flake it is pretty transparent but not completely. That is because the amount of reflective surfaces are only a few and going in only a few directions.

Answer 2

Snow is frozen water in many little crystals. It is frozen water just like
ice cubes are frozen water, except snow is not in a block shape, but in many
little crystals. The reason snow looks white to you is because when the
colors in the light touch it the snow does not absorb any of them, so to
your eyes, because it did not absorb, it looks white. When the snow melts it
means the little tiny water crystals are melting, just like an ice cube
melts when it gets warm. All the snow turns into water and makes the ground
wet. Now the snow no longer exists, so the light does not have any more snow
to touch anymore, therefore you do not see white any longer. Instead, you
see the color of whatever object was under the snow (like the grass).

White is the color made by lots of little surfaces, like the glitter of
broken glass.
When a glass chunk is whole, it is clear like water, like melted snow.
Then when you grind it into sand, it's white.
This time you have made white!
And when snow melts, yes, whiteness is destroyed .

White is just the color of scrambled light, bounced around until it is
dizzy, by lots of little partial mirrors.
It is 100% reflection, but scrambled so you do not get the picture images
you can see in a nice large mirror.

By partial mirror, I mean the way you can see yourself in a window sometimes.
Windows are about 92% clear + 4% mirror on the front + 4% mirror on the back.
Having two different mirrors makes the reflection a bit blurry sometimes.
If you ground this window up to a powder, it would be a pile of white powder.
There is almost no such thing as a clear powder.
(PS-do not try that. Glass dust is very dangerous.)

Answer 3

the white is the color of the snow. WHen it melts it turns to water and water is clear. GOt it

Answer 4

It goes with the melted snow.

Answer 5

the white of snow is simply the thickness of the frozen ice crystals. when snow melts the white dissapear's along with the thickness of the snow.

Answer 6

down the hill into the river, it is only white while it is snow when it melts it turns to water.

Answer 7

it turns back into water and then evaporates into the clouds and then is snowed backed down to earth startingthe cycle again.

Answer 8

you answered your own question and lost yourself 5 points....it melts

Answer 9

southern Mississippi

Answer 10

Back into the clouds whence it came.