The snow on the mountains does NOT melt all at once when it is heated by the sun because:

A. it becomes very hard
B. it reflects most of the heat from the sun
C. it has a low specific heat capacity
D. it has a high latent heat of fusion

Submitted by: Abid Hussain

At mountain, there is very large amount of snow i.e. m is very very high.
And for melts of ice, latent heat of fusion is required.
Latent heat of fusion = mass×Lf

And since very very large mass is present so very high amount of heat is required which can’t be delivered by sun at once.

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