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Rutherford Model of the Atom
Superseded · 1911
- Status
- Superseded
- Year
- 1911
Summary
A tiny dense nucleus with electrons somewhere around it — almost entirely empty space. Correct about the nucleus and fatally wrong about the orbits: classical electrons would radiate and spiral in within nanoseconds.
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