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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It’s all about structure. Sort of like how kitchen sponge foam is made of plastic, but if you melted a kitchen sponge down into a small block, it wouldn’t look or feel much like a sponge anymore.

Snow is sort of like an ice sponge – many tiny thin structures loosely packed together with lots of air in between.