A museum curator is comparing Thomson's plum pudding model with Rutherford's later nuclear model.
Which statement describes a feature that was absent from Thomson's model?
The atom contained particles with negative charge.
The positive charge was spread throughout the whole atom.
The positive and negative charges had equal totals.
Almost all the mass was held in a very small central region.
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