why the snow is a very white not black.yellow or red?

Answer 1

To understand where the whiteness comes from, we need to back up and look at why different things have different colors in the first place. Visible light is made up of many different frequencies of light. Our eyes detect different frequencies as different colors. Different objects have different colors because the particular particles (atoms and molecules) that make up the object have different vibration frequencies. Basically, the electrons of the particle will vibrate a certain amount in response to energy, depending on the frequency of the energy. In the case of light energy, the molecules and atoms absorb a certain amount of light energy depending on the frequency of the light, and then emit this absorbed energy as heat. This means that objects absorb certain frequencies of light more than others.

A couple of different things can happen to the light frequencies that are not absorbed. In some material, when a particle re-emits the photons, they continue to pass through to the next particle. In this case, light travels all the way through the material, so the material is clear. In most solid material, the particles re-emit most of the unabsorbed photons out of the material, so no light, or very little light, passes through and the object is opaque. The color of an opaque object is just the combination of the light energy that the object's particles did not absorb.

So, 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.

Answer 2

The reason why snow is not colorful is because it is transparent like water.

rain cannot make translucent rain turn yellow by freezing the only way snow changes color is if an other color comes in contact with it like a dogs piss in the winter.
sincerily,
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Answer 3

Because snow is basically frozen rain, and rain is water, which is clear, not black, yellow, or red. Or, at least I hope not.

Answer 4

I don't think the question is stupid. I've always wondered tha kind of stuff too. Why is the grass green? why is the sky blue? Sadly...nobody can give you an answer unless it's all scientific and depending on what you believe you'll believe it or not.

Answer 5

cause it comes from the heaven above i think

Answer 6

why is coal chocolate brown!!
and so enriched with delicious-ness!!
so addicting

Answer 7

why would u want to ask that stupid of a question?