Snow White
Where does the white go when snow melts?
Why is snow white? You might think it would take the color of Ness land due to clear. All that is is water. Why white?
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question524.htm ice is not transparent, truly transparent. This means that photons of light does not pass through the material in a direct way – the particles of the material change of direction of light. This happens because the distances between some atoms of the molecular structure of ice are about the height of wavelengths of light, which means that photons of light will interact with structures. The result is that the trajectory of a photon of light is altered and the ice goes in another direction than it entered the ice. Snow is a lot of crystals individual ice placed together. When a photon of light enters a layer of snow, which passes through an ice crystal on top, which changes its direction slightly and sends it to a new ice crystal, which does the same. Basically, all the crystals bounce the light of all that comes back from the snow pile. Do the same for all different light frequencies, so all colors of light bounced back out. The "color" of all frequencies in the visible spectrum combined in equal measure is white, so this is the color we see in the snow, but not the color we see on the ice crystals that snow individually.
