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Does the color of light affect how much snow is melted?

April 26, 2017affect color light melted snow

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Does the color of light affect how much snow is melted?

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Not much since the snow is white and will reflect all wavelengths of light more or less equally. However if there are colored objects in contact with the snow, then the color of the light will affect how much they heat up and therefore how much they melt the nearby snow.