Since snow is frozen water and frozen water is clear, why does snow have a distinctive color?
Snow is a cluster of individual ice crystals clumped together. When a light photon enters a layer of snow, it goes through an ice crystal on the top, which alters its direction slightly and transmits it onto a new ice crystal, which does the same thing. All the crystals bounce the light everywhere, altering all of light frequencies. The result is that the color” of all the frequencies in the visible spectrum combined in equal measure is white. This is the answer to the question of why is snow white. As light hits the snow on the ground, light reflects everywhere around it and no single wave length of light gets absorbed or reflected with any consistency. Most all of the white light from the sun hitting the snow will reflect back to the ground, making the fallen snow appear white. Although this explains why snow is white, it should be noted that depending on certain conditions, snow could take on other hues as well. In some instances, impurities in snow can cause it to appear a differen
