Explain Millikan's oil drop experiment and how it led to

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Explain Millikan’s oil drop experiment and how it led to the measurement of the electron’s charge. Why is the magnitude of the charge of the electron so important?

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Explain Millikan’s oil drop experiment and how it led to the measurement of the electron’s charge. Why is the magnitude of the charge of the electron so important?

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Solution : The diagram consists of doubly charged cation(red sph eres) and two singly charged anions(blue spheres) thus charge is balanced. The given diagram contains 12 blue spheres and 6 red spheres. Here, the number of cations (red

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