What is the plum pudding model?
Q: What is the plum pudding model?
A: The plum pudding model is a model of an atom proposed by J.J. Thomson in 1904.
Q: When was the plum pudding model proposed?
A: The plum pudding model was proposed in 1904 by J.J. Thomson.
Q: Was the plum pudding model proven to be correct?
A: No, the plum pudding model was later found to be wrong.
Q: Who proposed the plum pudding model?
A: The plum pudding model was proposed by J.J. Thomson.
Q: What did scientists know about the charge of an atom before the plum pudding model was proposed?
A: Scientists knew that there was a positive charge in the atom that balanced out the negative charges of the electrons, making the atom neutral, but they didn't know where the positive charge was coming from.
Q: Why was the plum pudding model called a "plum pudding" model?
A: The plum pudding model was called a "plum pudding" model because the positive medium was like a pudding, with electrons, or plums, inside.
Q: What did J.J. Thomson's plum pudding model show?
A: J.J. Thomson's plum pudding model showed an atom that had a positively charged medium, or space, with negatively charged electrons inside the medium.
