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The plum pudding model of the atom states that

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The plum pudding model of the atom states that had negatively-charged electrons embedded within a positively-charged "soup."

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Thomson's plum pudding model of the atom 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. Based on these results, Rutherford proposed the nuclear model of the atom.

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According to this model, the atom is a sphere of positive charge, and negatively charged electrons are embedded in it to balance the total positive charge.

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