Where does the white go when the snow melts?

Answer 1

It goes down a drain that leads to Alaska or Antartica depending on the gravitational pull on that day.

Answer 2

Of course the white light that you see is a collection of photons of all wavelengths similar to the white light of the sun. The structure of snow which is mostly air reflects the light back to your eyes without interacting with whatever objects the snow has coated. If you shine a red or blue light on the snow it will reflect only those colors because it has no color of its own. When the snow melts it becomes transparent water that conducts light without changing its color. Now instead of white light you see the color of the objects the snow coated. If the melted snow is on a red board, the red paint absorbs all colors except red which is reflected back to your eye. If the melted snow is on a black object the object absorbs all colors and very little light is reflected to your eyes and certainly no pronounced colors. In fact you see its blackness using rods on the retna rather than the three types of cones sensitive to the primary colors. Hope that helps a little.

Answer 3

Snow has air mixed in with the water which gives the white color like frost in your freezer. When the snow melts the air is released.

Answer 4

The white is just the color of the water that is semi-frozen. It comes from the trapped air inside the water. Once the snow melts, it turns into clear water and the white is gone. :)

Answer 5

Snow has absolutely no color. Snow apears white because it reflects all colors of the color spectrum admitted from the sun. This is the definition of white actually.....the complete absense of color. When a particular item favors a certain color wavelength, it becomes that color. A strawberry absorbs red....grass absorbs green and so on. Black, which is complete opposite of white, absorbs all wavelengths....making it a mixture of all colors. Almost a lesson in the soul ancestor of man if you ask me.

Answer 6

The white is formed from the frost. Snow is water, it melts and then it's gone...

It's not like it's a solid color/ dye.

Answer 7

The snow actually lacks pigment, its the tint at a certain degree that makes it look white when its clumped together so when it melts it becomes back to its natural clear colour and into water...................wich it clear.

Answer 8

i think its the reflection off of the snow from the sun. its either that or its just cuz the snow is so clumped together. so there really is no white. its just something u see.

Answer 9

It goes along with the snow that its smelting

Answer 10

where the light goes when we turn off the switch? open slowly slowly the door of the fridge lol can i have the 10?tnx