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1: why is snow white? 2: what color is a mirior? 3: is there a never ending past or future with different people every liitle tiny amount of time that goes by?

2006-08-13 15:24:44 · 12 answers · asked by energy 1 in Education & Reference Trivia

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!. Since snow is frozen water, and we all know that frozen water is clear, why does snow have a distinctive color? To understand this, we need to back up and look at an individual piece of ice. Ice is not transparent; it's actually translucent.

This means that the light photons don't pass right through the material in a direct path -- the material's particles change the light's direction. This happens because the distances between some atoms in the ice's molecular structure are close to the height of light wavelengths, which means the light photons will interact with the structures.

The result is that the light photon's path is altered and it exits the ice in a different direction than it entered the ice.

Snow is a whole bunch of individual ice crystals arranged together. When a light photon enters a layer of snow, it goes through an ice crystal on the top, which changes its direction slightly and sends it on to a new ice crystal, which does the same thing.

Basically, all the crystals bounce the light all around so that it comes right back out of the snow pile. It does the same thing to all the different light frequencies, so all colors of light are bounced back out.

The "color" of all the frequencies in the visible spectrum combined in equal measure is white, so this is the color we see in snow, while it is not the color we see in the individual ice crystals that form snow.

2. A mirror is silver, owing to the metal to manufacture it.

3. If you believe in alternate realities, then yes.

I hope these do it for you

2006-08-13 15:31:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7 0

1. Snow is white because it reflects all the light back.

2. A mirror is whatever color the thing in front of it is. If there's nothing there, then I think it's silver (because of the metal compound they use to make it).

3. I'm not sure I understand the wording to the last question, but I'll try... There can't be a never-ending past because the past, by definition, is over/complete. I guess there is a never-ending future, unless you could somehow reach a point where time ends.

2006-08-13 22:33:23 · answer #2 · answered by dpfw16 3 · 0 0

1. White is absence of color. Snow is made from water, which is essentially transparent. Therefore, anything transparent has no color!
2. A mirror is an aluminum layer between sheets of glass. They are "back silvered." Technically, I guess you might say that mirrors are "silver."
3. Past and future is relevant to what one considers to be the beginning. One's past begins with conception and ends at the "present." The future begins immediately following the present, and in my belief system - goes on for eternity!

2006-08-13 22:34:25 · answer #3 · answered by Sherry K 5 · 0 0

I think that snow is white because of the way the ice crystals form. Did you ever notice why the ice in your freezer is white? I think it has the same relation to snow being white, the crystals are loosely packed.
The mirror is probably silver with a very reflective luster.
I dont really understand the last question.

2006-08-13 22:35:21 · answer #4 · answered by ob 1 · 0 0

Snow is white because of the impurities and air mixed in with the water as it is freezing. A mirror is the color of whatever it sees, or if nothing is reflected, it is silver, because mirrors are made by painting glass silver on one side. I have no idea what the third question is asking, sorry.

2006-08-13 22:28:40 · answer #5 · answered by rita_alabama 6 · 1 0

snow is actually clear. light refraction makes it appear white to the naked eye. mirror paint is slate grey. the reflection is a different color, past presenet and future are abstract concepts. Tomorrow is never a reality.

2006-08-13 22:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by Just Gone 5 · 0 0

1) snow crystals reflect every color of light so they appear white.

2) a mirror is whatever color it is reflecting

3) no

2006-08-13 22:28:41 · answer #7 · answered by Plasmapuppy 7 · 0 0

1snow appears white
2mirrors reflect colour.so it dosent have colour it reflects it
3yes
ps:plese give 10 points

2006-08-13 22:31:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Nothing is 'IMPOSSIBLE'!

There is an answer for everything ( not a solution) question / problem!

2006-08-13 23:05:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No these are not impossible questions.

2006-08-13 22:29:49 · answer #10 · answered by Ifeelso706 3 · 0 0

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