How does Thompson's model differ from Rutherford's Model?
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How does Thompson's model differ from Rutherford's Model?
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Thomson's plum pudding model of the atom had negatively-charged electrons embedded within a positively-charged "soup." Rutherford's gold foil experiment showed that the atom is mostly empty space with a tiny, dense, positively-charged nucleus.