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Offline AlexNAlex2512

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We're here to play: Name That Atom!
« on: February 24, 2008, 08:16:57 PM »
Ok, the JJ Thompson atom model was nicknamed the "plum pudding" model...so what was Rutherford's model thats we use today called?

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Re: We're here to play: Name That Atom!
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2008, 08:44:22 PM »
First, we do not use Rutherfords model today, exactly. But anyway, you can get to quantum physics and quantum chemistry later.

In Rotherford's model you have ______ orbiting ______.
What is orbiting what, and what other kind of system do you know that involves orbits?

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Re: We're here to play: Name That Atom!
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2008, 01:57:31 AM »
electrons orbiting nucleus
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Re: We're here to play: Name That Atom!
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2008, 01:59:18 AM »
Quote from: AlexNAlex2512 on February 24, 2008, 08:16:57 PM
Ok, the JJ Thompson atom model was nicknamed the "plum pudding" model...so what was Rutherford's model thats we use today called?



Planetary Model
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