Combined Science GCSE
Atomic models
What Atomic models means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Atomic models
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The plum pudding model pictures a sphere of positive charge with electrons embedded in it, while the nuclear model has a small, dense, positive nucleus with electrons outside it.
Topics that use Atomic models
Related terms
- Atomic structure
- Charge and repulsion
- Charge distribution
- Concentration of mass and charge in the nucleus
- Dalton's atomic theory
- Development of scientific models over time
- Development of the atomic model
- electron
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