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Plum Pudding Model

Disproved · 1904

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Disproved
Year
1904

Summary

Electrons embedded in a diffuse sphere of positive charge. Rutherford's foil experiment killed it in one afternoon: alpha particles bounced straight back, which meant the positive charge was concentrated in a point.

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