what is the difference between ice and snow?and what is the real colour of snow?

Answer 1

Ice and snow have many ways of forming and each form may differ. At the extremes, snow consists of six-sided crystals or snowflakes (no two alike) and ice is frozen pure liquid water. Between the extremes, snowflakes may partially melt and refreeze on the way to the ground (if not on the ground). Heavily compacted snow (in a glacier) may form ice that can differ from other ice in its crystal detail and air content. Liquid water forms chains of water molecules (and expansion) when it freezes often excluding mineral content at grain boundaries. The grain boundaries freeze last and melt first leading to 'rotten' ice on a pond in the Spring (leading to people falling through perfectly good looking ice!).

The real color of snow depends of course upon the mixture of photons (wavelengths) reaching the eye. Snow does not significantly change the mixture of pure sunlight and appears as pure white light (a mix of all colors). Very thick ice can appear to be light blue, likely due to the trapped oxygen in H2O ice molecules. Liquid oxygen is also light blue and can settle out in the bottom of a vessel as liquid nitrogen evaporates (liquid oxygen is of course explosive in the presence of combustibles!).

Answer 2

Difference Between Snow And Ice

Answer 3

Ice is water substance in solid form.It occurs in the atmosphere and/or on the earth's surface in many forms such as ice crystals,snow, hail, hoar-frost,glaze,glacier etc.
Snow is a solid precipitation which occurs in a variety of minute ice crystals at temperature well below zero degree celcius.
In other words ,snow is a form of ice and has white colour.

Answer 4

snow is ice it is just very tiny crystals of it ice is frozen rain or a frozen lake or pond or puddle white is the real color of snow

Answer 5

When water freezes it became ice and when clouds became cool and starts to rain it became snow.

By scietific the density of ice is high than the density of snow.

The color of snow cant be explain, it seems to be sandal white in color.

Answer 6

ice is solid water. its transparent.
one big crystal

snow is solid water but of a much smaller size mixed with tiny air pockets that make it look white.
many tiny crystals with trapped oxygen in between the crystals.

Answer 7

ice is hard one,but snow is like a powder..snow is white color

Answer 8

snow is bright white

ice is transparent