When snow melts where does the white go?

Question

My hubby wanted to know..lol

Answer 1

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's not the color we see in the individual ice crystals that form snow.

when snow melts (ice is translucent), it becomes water which has the physical property of being transparent.

Answer 2

it melts away

Answer 3

Your hubby must be drunk

Answer 4

It goes to the air

Answer 5

Because of the crystal structure it appears White because light does not pass through it. The structure reflects the light and therefore looks white(illusion). Water allows light to pass through, so as the melting begins the crystals break apart and light passes through again...any mineral trapped in the crystal is absorbed in the ground (nitrogen).

Thanks for all the info from my husband and my science teacher in elementary school...