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 | | This solar-system-like atomic model, however, could not persist according to Maxwell's theory, where the revolving electrons should emit electromagnetic radiation and force a total collapse of the system in a very short time. |
 | | The understanding of atomic structure was also facilitated by Becquerel's discovery in 1896 of radioactivity in uranium ore (see Uranium). |
 | | Now nuclei could be understood as consisting of protons and neutrons, collectively called nucleons, and the atomic number of the element was simply the number of protons in the nucleus. |
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