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The Thomson Model

Plum pudding model of the atom

Plum pudding model of the atom

A schematic presentation of the plum pudding model of the atom; in Thomson's mathematical model the "corpuscles" (in modern language, electrons) were arranged non-randomly, in rotating rings.

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