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Why did Rutherford’s model fail?
Rutherford discovered the nucleus, but his model couldn’t explain something important. What was it?
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According to Rutherford, electrons revolve around the nucleus like planets around the sun. But accelerating charges lose energy. If this were true, electrons would spiral into the nucleus — but atoms are stable! This flaw led to Bohr’s model.
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