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Who dicovered the electron cloud?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The theory of the electron cloud was thought up by Rutherford after his gold foil experiment. He found that atoms shot at a very thin piece of gold foil were able to pass through and be detected on the other side rather than being deflected. From this he deduced that an atom is mostly empty space, thus the electron cloud model of the atom.

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