Why is snow and frost white?
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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.
But all snow is not so snow-white.
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Occasionally, walking across white snow, you'll see color flashes, like sparkles from a diamond. In this case, a cold, dry night has probably squeezed the last moisture out of the air and onto the top layer of snowflakes, where it has crystallized in a faceted pattern similar to . a diamond. These little torture chambers bend and split light into its rainbow of wavelengths the way a prism does.
And then there are glaciers, which often look an eerie blue. Unlike snow, which is mostly air, ice is mostly ice. Without the scattering effect of air bubbles, light can penetrate much deeper into ice. And the deeper it goes, the more photons from the red end of the spectrum it loses along the way. Two meters into the glacier, most of the reds are dead.
The colors in sunlight react differently to each molecule -- ice molecules, dog molecules, apple molecules. In ice, it just happens that some blue wavelengths skate the farthest -- 24 meters -- before they're finally absorbed. And until they're absorbed, they're free to scatter and reflect. Some of them eventually find their way back out of the ice to glow blue at your eyeballs.
I thought Jack painted it white
because snow and frost are frozen water in some form, and water is clear reflecting colors, so when it freezes it is inthe sky and they freeze reflecting the clouds color, not really too sure though lol do i get points for the most inventive answer?
Because that's the way God made it, and there couldn't be a Snow White & The 7 Dwarfs!!
because when water crystallizes it starts clear and when you get anof clear it turns white
Because they are made from water, which is colorless. (Polluted rivers notwithstanding)
Because it is granular in structure and the light reflects off of the various facets or surfaces of the snow and frost
Because it is granular in structure and the light reflects off of the various facets or surfaces of the snow and frost good luck
because it reflects all ranges (colors) of light at once. Mix all colors of light and you get white.
Water does not absorb specific visible wavelengths of light, so has no visible colour. When it has chrysalises in the form of snow or frost it will refract light in lots of directions, hence making it opaque (unlike perfect ice crystals which are clear). This random refraction of light gives as an even spread of all of the wavelengths of light thus its white and not coloured.
Isn't it because it is a very good reflector of light. Made up of multi-faceted crystals.
BECAUSE IT IS WHITE..
it reflects light back to the naked eye in every colour of the spectrum, ie. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,. violet, which together we see as white light.
oppositely, an item which reflects no light and absorbs light in every part of the seven colours of the spectrum appears black.
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because water droplets contain and refract all of the colours of the rainbow at different wavelengths when in fluid form. however when frozen reflection occurs internally and although all of the colours still come out they are all mixed together - this is white light. PS don't eat yellow snow ...
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