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Why The Snow Has White Color?
Water is a transparent colorless compound; the ice particles are also colorless and transparent. Snow is made up of countless tiny particles of ice, so why is it white?
Imagine waking up every morning, around your house is a world of white snow. But if you turn on the tap or open the freezer, you will notice that the water and liquid ice are usually transparent.
To find out how H2O, a naturally transparent substance, turns white, Knennerth Litbbrecht — professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology — used the following example: If you break a piece of clear glass. transparent, you will see small pieces of glass turn white.
Libbrecht said the reason for this difference is the way light interacts with a single surface like windows compared to multifaceted objects like broken glass. The same concept applies to snow.
Due to the reflection and refraction of light, the snowflakes will turn white at that time.
First of all, we need to observe two phenomena: In summer, we put ice on the planer and puree…
