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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.
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Is snow melting when salt is added a chemical or physical change?
Melting of ice with salt is example of physical change as there is no chemical reaction involved .
Is precipitate physical change?
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.
Is salting the ice on the sidewalk a chemical change?
Yes. The melting point of salt solutions is lower than that of pure water.
What is an example of a gas to a solid deposition?
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.
When 2.5 centimeters of rain freezes what amount of snow does it make?
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Is melting snow a physical change or chemical change?
Snow disappearing is a physical change. It is a combination of melting and then evaporating and of sublimation.
Is water turning to snow a chemical or physical change?
Changes of state are physical changes.
Is falling snow a chemical change?
No. It is a physical change.
Is melting snow a physical change?
Yes
Is walking on snow a physical or chemical change?
The walking is not a change at all. The snow experiences a physical change (it gets compressed, and some crystals may melt due to the pressure).
What are some physical changes in snow?
Snow has no chemical changes. It goes through a freezing stage of water vapor, just a molecular change.
When freezing rain turns into snow this is an example of what?
a physical change
Is there any poetry about physical or chemical change in snow?
Yes There Is.....
Why melting snow is a physical change?
because it goes from the physical form of a solid to a liquid thus a physical change.
Is snow forming a physical or chemical property?
It is a physical change: water changes from gas to solid.
Is melting snow into water chemical or physical change?
physical, because there is no chemical reaction to cause the change. it's just heat.
Is a snowman a chemical change?
No not ia any way
