Silly questions dept.....
Steve
Yowie
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> Where does the white go when snow melts??
The boring, scientific, answer is that the white colour of snow is caused by
tiny air pockets between the ice particles. Because of the difference in the
refractive index of ice and air, light gets reflected back to your eye, and
you see 'white' in much the same way as bubbles in the bubblebath are white,
the whitewater in the rapids section of a river is white, and crashing surf
is white.
Once the snow melts, or the ice is compacted such that it no longer contains
pockets of air, the water or ice becomes clear again.
Metaphysically, though, I don't know. Pehaps it neutralises the evil that is
black ice?
Yowie
--
If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.
JL
Steve wrote:
> Where does the white go when snow melts??
Same place the "color" of rainbows go when it stops raining?
Baird Stafford
"Yowie" <yowie9644....@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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> Once the snow melts, or the ice is compacted such that it no longer contains
> pockets of air, the water or ice becomes clear again.
Or, when compacted, a rather frightening blue such as is found deep in
the crevasse of a glacier.
<snip>
Blessed be,
Baird
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice
there is. -Yogi Berra
Steve
"Baird Stafford" <ba...@newstaff.com> wrote in message
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> In article <7o014cF...@mid.individual.net>,
> "Yowie" <yowie9644....@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Once the snow melts, or the ice is compacted such that it no longer
>> contains
>> pockets of air, the water or ice becomes clear again.
>
> Or, when compacted, a rather frightening blue such as is found deep in
> the crevasse of a glacier.
Last time I saw blue ice was inside the Arctic, also in Antarctica.... 10 -
20 feet thick, multi-year ice that the ship was breaking through. I did
tours on 2 US Coast Guard ice breakers.
Yowie
> "Yowie" <yowie9644....@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Once the snow melts, or the ice is compacted such that it no longer
>> contains pockets of air, the water or ice becomes clear again.
>
> Or, when compacted, a rather frightening blue such as is found deep in
> the crevasse of a glacier.
Water (and ice) do have a very slight blue colour to them, we don't tend to
notice because most of the water & ice we deal with are small amounts. Your
eyes need a large amount water or ice to be able to discern the colour, but
it has to be taken into account when doing colorimetry.
Water with impurities (even tap water) tends to have more colour than pure
water, but pure water isn't 'technically' colourless.
Yowie (with chemist hat on)
phorbin
jste...@comcast.net says...
> Where does the white go when snow melts??
Into memory.
Don Hilliker
wrote:
>Where does the white go when snow melts??
Into the ground to sustain the green (and I just finally got my first
12 inches today - got to take my new cross country skis ou for a first
try - fast and fun)
Don Hilliker, Intricate Articles
http://www.intricatearticles.com
storm
> Where does the white go when snow melts??
I don't care. Just so long as the darn stuff melts. ;-)
(California boy transplanted to Colorado, staring at the evil white
stuff falling as I type and grumbling.) (Bothers the locals when I
refer to it as "God's dandruff"!)
-storm
Gale
> Where does the white go when snow melts??
>
Evil corporations use it to take the brown out of the sugar.
--
Blessed Be,
Gale
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Baird Stafford
<f597e58e-b84b-465c...@j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
storm <st...@frii.com> wrote:
<snip>
> (California boy transplanted to Colorado, staring at the evil white
> stuff falling as I type and grumbling.) (Bothers the locals when I
> refer to it as "God's dandruff"!)
And why do you think this Colorado boy transplanted to Florida has
absolutely no intention of going "back home - except maybe for a visit
during the summer? Some day in the indefinite future....
Steve
"storm" <st...@frii.com> wrote in message
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I dunno... the folks here in south Mississippi still haven't quite figured
me out... I tell them the I am a misplaced northern Kalifornian, in rural
south Mississippi....for tourist information, call BR-549. :-)
sign me Redneck Hippy
Chris Cottrell
> In article
> <f597e58e-b84b-465c-8824-801d81c8a...@j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
>
> �storm <st...@frii.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > (California boy transplanted to Colorado, staring at the evil white
> > stuff falling as I type and grumbling.) �(Bothers the locals when I
> > refer to it as "God's dandruff"!)
>
> And why do you think this Colorado boy transplanted to Florida has
> absolutely no intention of going "back home - except maybe for a visit
> during the summer? �Some day in the indefinite future....
Yeah, well, I was born in February on an allegheny mountain, so I love
the snow. Now I'm stuck in Eastern Carolina, where the snow rarely
falls, and I know I'll miss it. Last year was the Washington Winter
of 72-inch accumulation, mostly from a week of 2 storms, and I really
miss that...
-'Thenie
a snow princess at heart
Baird Stafford
<42d0bd13-f6d1-4a8f...@b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
Chris Cottrell <theni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, well, I was born in February on an allegheny mountain, so I love
> the snow. Now I'm stuck in Eastern Carolina, where the snow rarely
> falls, and I know I'll miss it. Last year was the Washington Winter
> of 72-inch accumulation, mostly from a week of 2 storms, and I really
> miss that...
The Dowager warned me about people like you....