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How did rutherfords discovery effect the model of the atom

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Thomson proposed the plum pudding model of the atom, which had negatively-charged electrons embedded within a positively-charged "soup." Rutherford's gold foil experiment showed that the atom is mostly empty space with a tiny, dense, positively-charged nucleus.

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