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How did Ernest Rutherford’s experiment relate to J.J Thomson’s work?

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J. J. Thomson’s Plum Pudding model proposed that the electrons were embedded within a sphere of positive charge.

Rutherford’s experiment showed that the positive charge was concentrated in a central, massive, positively-charged nucleus surrounded by a cloud of orbiting electrons.

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