Like air bubbles in boiling water, snow does not form out of nothing. There has to be a defect, a foreign substance. In the case of snow, its existence probably starts with a piece of dirt floating in air and drawn by rising air upward. Water moisture in air causes some water molecules to cling to the dirt particle. A small water droplet is forming. If the air temperature is below freezing (about zero degree Celsius at normal atmospheric pressure), the water droplet solidifies and a tiny ice molecule is formed. More water molecules are drawn to the cool icy surface and the slowly-building ice molecules become snow. A fast-forming ice particle will be called hail. A ice-forming failure results in something more like fog. Snow can form even when the tiny icy entity (with a dirt particle in the nucleus) is falling down to earth, if the temperature stays below freezing. Catch a snow flake on your palm and you can see the snow flake melts. However, within the blink of an eye, you can even see a tiny piece of ice in the middle of the puddle of water droplet on you palm.
Melting of ice with salt is example of physical change as there is no chemical reaction involved .
Precipitation in weather terms (rain, snow, etc.) is a physical process. Precipitation in chemical terms (e.g. lead iodide falling out of solution) is a chemical change.
Yes. The melting point of salt solutions is lower than that of pure water.
Carbon dioxide undergoes this physical change, and it happens on Mars, where temperatures are much lower than here. Carbon dioxide "snow" can form in Mars' polar regions.
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No, falling snow is a physical change, not a chemical change. The process of snow falling is a result of water vapor in the atmosphere freezing into solid ice crystals, which is a physical change as it involves a change in state from gas to solid.
Changes of state are physical changes.
Snow disappearing is a physical change. It is a combination of melting and then evaporating and of sublimation.
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Walking on snow is a physical change because the snow remains as solid ice crystals and does not undergo any chemical reactions to form new substances.
When carbon (soot) is applied to snow, it can absorb sunlight and cause the snow to melt faster. This is a physical change as the snow changes from its solid state to liquid water due to the presence of the carbon.
Melting snow is a physical change because it involves a change in the state of water from a solid (ice/snow) to a liquid form, without altering the chemical composition of the water molecules. This change is reversible, as the melted snow can refreeze back into ice under appropriate conditions.
Yes. The act of moving a substance from one location to another is a physical one. The act of changing the state of the substance from one state to another can be physical also. But the act of altering the substance by adding or subtracting one or more of its components is a chemical change.
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It is a physical change: water changes from gas to solid.
physical, because there is no chemical reaction to cause the change. it's just heat.