plum pudding model
What plum pudding model means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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A model picturing the atom as a ball of positive charge with negative electrons embedded in it, like fruit in a pudding.
A ball of positive charge with negative electrons embedded in it, proposed after the discovery of the electron.
The model with negative electrons embedded in a ball of positive charge, which the nuclear model replaced.
A model suggesting that the atom is a ball of positive charge with negative electrons embedded in it.
A ball of positive charge with electrons embedded in it.
Topics that use plum pudding model
- The development of the model of the atom (common content with chemistry) (AQA GCSE)
- The development of the model of the atom (common content with physics) (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Atomic structure
- Charge and repulsion
- Development of the atomic model
- electron
- indivisible
- neutral atom
- nuclear model
- proton
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