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Sketch Rutherford's atomic model. Why Rutherford's model of the atom is called the planetary model?

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The model describes the atom as a tiny, dense positively charged core called the nucleus, in which nearly all the mass is concentrated, around which the light, negatively constituents called electrons, circulated at some distance, must like planets revolving around the sun.
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