plum pudding

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a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake

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Chemical structure Top: Expected results: alpha particles passing through the plum pudding model of the atom undisturbed. Source: Internet

At the time of the experiment, the atom was thought to be analogous to a plum pudding (as proposed by J. J. Thomson ), with the negative charges (the plums) found throughout a positive sphere (the pudding). Source: Internet

Discovery of the electron The Geiger–Marsden experiment Top: Expected results: alpha particles passing through the plum pudding model of the atom with negligible deflection. Source: Internet

Gold foil experiment Top: Expected results: alpha particles passing through the plum pudding model of the atom undisturbed. Source: Internet

Related scientific problems The plum pudding model with a single electron was used in part by the physicist Arthur Erich Haas in 1910 to estimate the numerical value of Planck's constant and the Bohr radius of hydrogen atoms. Source: Internet

The Thomson problem is a natural consequence of the plum pudding model in the absence of its uniform positive background charge. Source: Internet

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