if water is clear,why is snow white??

Answer 1

Snow white isn't clear, she's pale. There's a difference.

Answer 2

The ice in snow is clear. You can only see through clear things if the surfaces are smooth. If the surfaces are rough (like frosted glass) you can't see through them, the light gets scattered. The rougher they are, the more the light gets scattered - think diamonds where you can see reflections back to you, due to lots of faces internally reflecting the light.

The ice in snowflakes is really rough, so a lot of light is reflected back to you. Light is white, so snow looks white. If you had green light, you'd see green snow. If the tiny ice crystals weren't clear, the snow would look dark due to some light being absorbed and not reflected back.

Answer 3

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 4

The answer lies in snow's messy construction. A beam of white sunlight entering a snow bank is so quickly scattered by a zillion ice crystals and air pockets that most of it comes zinging right back out of the snow bank. No one wavelength is preferentially absorbed or reflected, so snow is essentially the color of the sunlight reflecting off it -- white.

Answer 5

it fairly is as a results of scattering of sunshine. Snow is basically a gaggle of relatively prepared ice crystals that are randomly bunched collectively the place air fills the voids. This relatively random shape (and the version in refractive indices between ice and air) leads to a extensive volume of scattering (while in comparison with liquid water). And, on the grounds that the two ice and water do no longer soak up seen gentle, scattering occurs for all "colorings" of sunshine and motives the snow to look white.

Answer 6

Water is clear because, water is colorless. And snow is white because snow is solid and been compacted to found a color which is white.

Answer 7

Because of the frozen water crystals inside which reflect off each other and give the white appearence.

Answer 8

it is a frozen particle, fill up a glass with snow and I bet it wont be white anymore. An ice cube is also white until it has been polished.

Answer 9

for the 5th time i believe lol your getting the same answer as the others

Water and ice is not transparent, they are translucent when rain is made its because it attaches to airborne pollution like dust and such and falls so much like the impurities in the center of an ice cub when the light hits it it refracts out of it as a white color, its a function of the color spectrum.

Answer 10

Because it has been frozen. and because they are only small the light reflects through it giving it the colour white.

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