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| | PLUM PUDDING MODEL Chocolate |
 | | Based on Thomson's model, Rutherford assumed the flying, positively charged alpha particles would be pushed a little to the side by the positive "cookie dough" in the metal atoms, and continue flying along at a slightly different angle. |
 | | This is often called Thomson's "plum pudding model", or more likely these days the "chocolate chip cookie" model in which the dough of the cookie is a cloud of "uniform positive electrification" and the chocolate chips are the small, negatively charged electrons. |
 | | As a model of atomic structure it had a very short life, but it got people thinking, and one of those who thought more than others was Ernest Rutherford, whose work took the search to the next level. |
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