why does snow get so frozen and sometimes turns to ice and can break like glass?

Question

i was taking a walk and and noticed some frozen snow/ice and i knocked it over and it broke like glass. why does it do that?

Answer 1

snow/ice as you call it breaks like glass because when water freezes, as you know, the atoms/particles come together and slow down: therefore, a crystalline structure forms... so when it breaks, the vibrations of what ever caused it to break move through the ice, and removes the bonds between the particles (not molecular or ionic bonds, "bonds" as in stuck together)

Answer 2

did not we try this one a pair of days in the past? Its a detrimental theory because of the fact the floor remains frozen and temperatures are nonetheless dropping decrease than freezing in one day. If each physique threw water on their paths and roads Britain may well be snow unfastened, even though if it would grow to be one large ice rink quite....... And the cleared snow and chucked water might all finally end up back interior the drains and rivers besides, so we would nonetheless get the floods.

Answer 3

Because ice is a crystaline structure and, like all crystals, it's fairly brittle.


Doug