Question

(i) Describe the Rutherford's model of an atom. State one drawback of Rutherford's model of the atom.
​(ii) The mass number of an element is 23 and it contains 11 electrons. What is the number of protons and neutrons in it? What is the atomic number of the element?

Answer 1

Answer:

you can also think of it as a pudding with the electrons being the plum or the raisins in the pudding. Therefore, this model is also referred to as the watermelon model, the plum pudding model or the raisin pudding model