why is snow white it could be black or red and yellow???

Answer 1

Something to do with it being pure frozen water. Water is clear in liquid form, bvut at the molecules become solid light cannot pass easily through it, so it becomes white.
This is basically it, but you'll probably get a more scientific answer from someone else. I tried ;-)

Answer 2

Light is a mixture of all colours of the spectrum and light travels in minute waves.

When light hits snow the light actually penetrates the surface of the snow. The light photons (particles of light) enter the ice crystals that make up the snow, the atoms and molecules in the ice crystal deflect the photons with the result that light enters the ice crystals from one direction but leaves in a different direction.

This deflecting of photons can happen several times before the light is bounced right back out of the snow. Because there's millions and millions of these photons being bounced back out and they're a mix of all colours of the spectrum what we see is white light bouncing off the snow. Although it appears to be white snow doesn't actually have any colour to it.

There's a more detailed explanation on the How Stuff Works website... http://www.howstuffworks.com/question524.htm

As for it being black, red or yellow (or any other colour). It could be if the physics of light were different, our eyes worked differently or the composition of snow was different.

Answer 3

It's natural colour just happens to be white or colourless. But if it's got something mixed in with it, it could end up in a variety of colours.

I have heard of black or grey snow,in Romania, where the snow got mixed with soot from polluting chimney stacks. And I personally have seen red snow in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa, where it got coated with a layer of fine red Saharan dust.

Answer 4

It's not white, it's transparent, but it reflects light and therefore appears to be white. Just remember, it's frozen water, and because of it's surface and structure, it reflects the light. Like a polar bear. It does NOT, however, reflect it's surroundings, otherwise it would be green when on grass, or look like a road, or trees etc.

Answer 5

Because her hair was black as ebony, Her lips as red as blood, her skin as white as snow. I don't know what was yellow though,lol

Answer 6

well at the moment in Russia it is snowing red, yellow and green!!!

Answer 7

It's not white, nor are polar bears, but they reflect the colours around them due to there being transparent and reflective in nature

Answer 8

It just appears to be white.White is the sign of purity and nothing could be more pure than coming from the heavens.

Answer 9

Yellow if there has been a dog near by!!!

Answer 10

Then why is the sky blue?