[paul.fr]

OK time for the contraversial post. Salt isn't particularly white!

Big pure crystals of salt get used in infra red spectroscopy because they are transparent to IR radiation (across quite a large range). If you look at one of these crystals it looks prettty much like a piece of glass. or, indeed, like a piece of (bubble free) ice.

interestingly, or not, Anastasia made a microscope slide of salt and as you state mr chemist, it does indeed look like a piece of glass

[another_someone]

well water shines if you look at it from an angle. but the light is absorbed as it hits and heats up the water(evaporation). so maybe it shines because the salt in it bounces the light off it. and from an angle it does look white. Right if you evaporate salt water and catch the steam and let it condense back into water and then test it for salt. does it still have some salt in it. If it does then I could be right. Better still why not catch rain water and see if there is any salt there. maybe just a small amount. I think there will be, would someone please go and test some rain water, for me! I dont have the equipment.

So, how about another aspect of this - when it snows, one way of getting the snow to melt is to add salt to it - clearly indicating that there is a difference between salted snow and unsalted snow, and the stuff you get comming from frozen rainwater is the unsalted variety (and, interestingly, it is the unsalted variety, that while it is more frozen, is also the whiter).

Not that I think any of this is is going to make the slightest difference to your response, since you clearly have an idea in your head that no amount of contrary fact will shift (or so you would have us believe - I have yet to be convinced that even you believe half of what you are saying, and are not just saying it to be provocative - I actually think you are probably brighter than the rather stupid act you are trying to put on).