What is heavier water or snow?

Answer 1

The weight is dependent on the volume, so in order to answer that question you'd have to know the volume of both the ice and water. Therefore it's not really possible to answer that question; the question does not make sense.

When you compare the weight per volume, which we call density, than ice has a lower weight per volume, it is less dense, than water. Due to the lower density, ice bergs float in the sea and ice cubes float in your glass.

This is actually a very special characteristic of water, most materials will have a higher density in their solid state. Because of this property, water has lots of other special properties. For example, raising the pressure will lower the freezing point of water will in other materials raising the pressure will help it convert to its solid state.

It is also thought that water can't be frozen isochorically (that means that it is stored in a very rigid container which cannot expand at all). Usually water will always be frozen below a temperature below approximately minus 60-70 degrees Celsius. Using a rigid container, scientists were able to keep water liquid below a temperature of minus 129 degrees Celsius. The problem with this is that it's impossible to have a container which is really completely rigid. Every container will expand at some pressure and the pressures involved in freezing water isochorically are really really high.

Answer 2

Oh, dude, technically snow is heavier than water because snow is just frozen water, so it's more compact. It's like comparing a fluffy marshmallow to a dense chocolate bar. So yeah, snow takes the cake in the weight department, but don't go trying to lift a snowbank thinking it's lighter just because it's fluffy!

Answer 3

Snow is water.

Yes, but snow is frozen water which expands as it changes from a liquid to its frozen crystalline form. And because it has expanded, it it less dense and so becomes lighter. That's why ice / icebergs float.

Answer 4

Heavy ices: phases of ice with greater densities than the normal ice

Heavy water: deuterated water, D2O

Answer:

Water has a greater density than ice. A volume of water is heavier than the same volume of ice.

Answer 5

Snow is lighter than water because it is made up of ice crystals, which have more air trapped within them compared to liquid water. This trapped air makes snow less dense than water, causing it to be lighter in weight.

Answer 6

water because snow contains air which is less dense than water

Answer 7

Water is heavier than ice

Answer 8

Rain because it is so sexy