Why Rutherford's model of the atom is called the nuclear atom?

Answer 1

The Rutherford model was called the nuclear model because he decided on the atom to consist of both the nucleus, and the orbits of electrons, so he separated the nucleus from being combined with the whole atom. it is a due to his test of gold foil being shot with a cathode ray, and since most of the electrons went right through the gold foil, he assumed that the atom was filled with mostly empty space, and that is why the modern description of an atom has a huge size for where the electrons ought to be, with such a small nucleus.

Answer 2

In the planetary model, the sun is at the centre with the planets revolving around the sun in fixed paths.

In a similar way, as per Rutherford's atomic model, the atom has positively charged nucleus at the centre (comparison with the sun) and the negatively charged electrons are revolving around the nucleus in fixed path called orbitals.

Answer 3

It showed that atoms have a small localised region of charge at the centre called the nucleus, whereas the rest of the atom is mostly empty space. This opposed the previous "plum pudding" model that described the atom with evenly distributed charge.

Answer 4

Rutherford, thru analysis of the 'gold foil experiment', 'discovered the nucleus. Before him the accepted theory was that the atom had no individual positive part, but the entire atom was like a smear of pudding with the positive spread throughout and electrons were the only individual particles imbedded in that pudding.

Answer 5

He found that there atom has lot of space. And there are positive charges

Answer 6

Rutherford identified the positive atomic nucleus.

Answer 7

This is a model that suggests the arrangement of protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus.

Answer 8

It is called nuclear model because it is a model, and because it describes the center of an atom, which is known as "nucleus".