According to whose atomic model, electrons are embedded in a gel of positive charge?

Dalton's model

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Bohr's model

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Thomson's model

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Rutherford's model

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Solution

The correct option is B Thomson's model
Thomson assumed that an atom is a sphere of positive charges uniformly distributed, with the electrons scattered as points throughout the sphere. This was known as plum-pudding model at that time.

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