Millikan's oil drop experiment was conducted to find:

Mass of an electron

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Charge on an electron

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Mass of proton

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The correct option is B Charge on an electron
Millikan performed the oil drop experiment to measure the elementry electric charge, i.e., charge of the elctron.

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