2007-01-19 07:11:03 · 8 answers · asked by spit on it 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
She was a fairy tale princess who lived happily ever after once the Prince woke her from her sleep that was caused by eating the poison apple.
Snow White and the Prince are doing great I hear.
2007-01-19 16:14:49 · answer #1 · answered by nerdy girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-01-19 15:22:36 · answer #2 · answered by Goldista 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-01-19 15:18:45 · answer #3 · answered by farquaht 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ice crystals in snow are transparent but they scatter the light falling on them. Some of the light scatters towards the observer. As the light is white, the snow appears white. The same process of scattering makes other things that are made of small transparent objects look white - like clouds, a bowl of sugar or polar bear's fur.
2007-01-19 15:21:00 · answer #4 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
snow is frozen water, then water is clear, then..
2007-01-19 15:26:47 · answer #5 · answered by wu n 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure she doing well. Ask her when she wakes out of her deep sleep.
2007-01-19 16:50:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As far as I know she's fine but you probably should ask one of the seven dwarfs to get first hand knowledge...
2007-01-19 15:16:58 · answer #7 · answered by Rockit 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
why did something happen to her? i hope she's okay
2007-01-19 16:53:46 · answer #8 · answered by You Betcha! 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋