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Chapter 2 Problem 10E

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Describe Rutherford’s gold foil experiment. How did the experiment prove that the plum-pudding model of the atom was wrong?

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Solution : The above figure illustrates the Millikan’s oil-drop experiment, which was used to measure the char ge of the electron. Small drops of oil were allowed to fall between electrica lly charged plates. The drops picked up extra electrons as a r esult of irradiation(process by which an object is exposed to radiation) by X-rays and they became egatively charged. M illikan m easured the varying voltage between the plates that affected the rate of fall. From these data he calculated the negative charge on the drops. Because the charge on any drop was always some integral multiple of 1.602×10 C, Millikan -19 deduced this value to be the charge of a single electron. (a) What causes their rate of fall to vary from their rate in the abse

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Title Chemistry: A Molecular Approach 3 
Author Nivaldo J. Tro
ISBN 9780321809247

Describe Rutherford’s gold foil experiment. How did the

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