What is the main difference between the plum pudding model and Rutherford’s nuclear model?
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Rutherford's model did not completely reimagine Thomson's. Like Thomson, Rutherford still believed that atoms contained negatively charged electrons. Unlike the plum pudding model, where those atoms simply floated in "soup," Rutherford believed they orbited the central nucleus just as planets orbit the sun.
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Firstly, the Plum pudding model has no empty space however the Nuclear model was mostly empty space. Another difference is that the Nuclear model the mass was more concentrated at the centre/nucleus but the Plum pudding model the mass was evenly distributed. Moreover the Plum pudding model was a ball of positive charge with embedded electron on the other hand the Nuclear model has all it's positive charge in the nucleus
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