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Thomson showed that the stream of particles in cathode ray tube is made up of small particles which are a component of the atom and is:

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neutral
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negatively charged
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positively charged
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both A and B
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The correct option is B negatively charged
Thomson discovered electrons using the cathode ray tube. It has been previously seen that if a electric current is passed through a vacuum tube, a glowing stream is formed. Thomson found that the mysterious glowing stream would bend toward a positively charged electric plate. He concluded that the stream is negatively charged. He also concluded based on his experiments that the negative stream has negatively charged particles that he called corpuscles (later renamed electrons).

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