The history of the atom - page 15

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How did John Dalton describe atoms? (shape)
Solid spheres
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What did Dalton say the different spheres make up?
Different elements
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What did J.J. Thomson conclude from his experiments?
That atoms weren't solid spheres
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How did he find out about electrons?
His measurements of charge and mass showed that an atom must contain even smaller, negatively charged particles
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What was Thomson's new theory known as?
The Plum Pudding Model
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Who showed that the plum pudding model was wrong?
Rutherford, Geiger and Marsden
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What famous experiment did Rutherford conduct?
The gold foil experiment
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What was the gold foil experiment?
They fired positively charged alpha particles at an extremely thin sheet of gold
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What were they expecting to happen?
The particles to pass straight through the sheet or be slightly deflected
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What happened in the experiment?
Most of the particles went straight through, some were deflected more than expected, and a small number were deflected backwards
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Why did they expect this to happen?
They thought that the positive charge was spread out through the atom
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What was the theory that Rutherford came up with?
The nuclear atom
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What is in the nuclear atom?
It is mostly empty space but there are electrons spreaded around with a positive nucleus
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What did scientists realise about the nuclear atom?
That it wouldn't work as the electrons would be attracted to the nucleus, causing the atom to collapse
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Who theorised the next atom?
Niels Bohr
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What is this model called?
The Bohr model
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