Where do elements get their names?

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Where do elements get their names?

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Where do elements get their names?

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Solution : The above figure shows the plum-pudding model proposed by J. J. Thomson. He described that .the atom consists of a uniform positive sphere of matter in which the mass is evenly distributed and in which the electrons are embedded like raisins in a pudding or seeds in a watermelon. This model was named as plum-pudding model, named after a traditional English dessert. Ernest Rutherford and Ernest Marsden proved this model wrong using -Scattering experiment

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