Eli5: If water is transparent, why are clouds white?
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Because transparent things in tiny bits look white. Whenever light enters or exits a droplet, it changes direction. When it has to go through billions of droplets, it changes directions so many times that it’s essentially being randomly scattered, which is the same thing that white objects do to incoming light. It’s the same reason snow is white while ice is clear.
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