So convincing is this model that after only twelve years it is known no longer as “the atomic model of Rutherford and Bohr,” but is simply taken for granted as “the atom.” In this ...

Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding ... scattered about in it like raisins in a pudding. As part of an experiment with x-rays in 1909, Rutherford was shooting a beam ...

An element's atomic number defines it. An element with 17 protons will always be chlorine. However an element's mass numbers can vary, which means that it can have different numbers of neutrons ...

An experiment more than 10 years in the making ... What we regard as the nucleus of an atom is a beehive of even smaller ...

An experiment bludgeoning special ... 208 Pb remains a puzzle for nuclear structure theories." 208 Pb is a very special atom.

Therefore, electrons cannot be arranged at random, but they must have fixed levels of energy within each type of atom. Bohr's 'solar ... a version of Rutherford's experiment, using a sheet of ...

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