Show why snow Is white t the reason that snow la Is white ts that all the elementary colors are blended together in the radiance that is thrown off from the surface of 0 the crystals which may be examined in such a way as to detect these colors before they are mingled together to give the eye the impression of whiteness the whiteness of the snow Is also in some degree referable to the quan city ot of air which Is left among the frozen particles considerably more than a thousand distinct forms ot of snow crystals have been enumerated these minute crystals and prisms re j fleet all the compound rays of which h white light consists chicago trib une |