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Bohr's model is sometimes called the ________ model because it resembles a mini-solar system.

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His model was also called the Planetary model
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Bohr's model is sometimes called the Rutherford–Bohr model because it resembles a mini solar system.

Step-by-step explanation:

Early 1900s Rutherford's model shows that an atom is mostly empty space, with electrons orbiting a fixed, positively charged nucleus in set, predictable paths. This model of an atom was developed by Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand native working at the University of Manchester in England.

The Bohr Model as presented by Niels Bohr is a planetary model in which the negatively charged electrons orbit a small, positively charged nucleus similar to the planets orbiting the sun (except that the orbits are not planar).

The highlighted similarity between Rutherford and Bohr theory made them similar and a collaboration was been executed by both parties to form Rutherford-Bohr model.

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