What’s the difference between ice and snow? Aren’t they both frozen water?

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What’s the difference between ice and snow? Aren’t they both frozen water?

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I’m assuming you have never seen snow irl or Else you wouldn’t be asking this but basically snow is frozen rain. It’s tiny particles of water that attack to eachother and then fall when they get heavy (the images you see online of snowflakes are Infact how snowflakes look! From afar it shimmer like glitter). Unlike rain though, they gently land on one another and don’t squish eachother because of air. So you get a kind of shaved ice consistency.