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How did Rutherford change Thomson's model of the atom?

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J.J. Thomson suggested the"plum pudding" model. ... These deflections were not consistent with Thomson's modelRutherford was forced to discard the Plum Pudding model and reasoned that the only way the alpha particles could be deflected backwards was if most of the mass in an atom was concentrated in a nucleus.



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