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Structure of the Nuclear Atom
Cathode-ray tubes are
found in TVs, computer
monitors, and many other
devices with electronic
displays.
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Structure of the Nuclear Atom >
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Subatomic Particles
Subatomic Particles
What are three kinds of subatomic
particles?
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4.2 Subatomic Particles
Three kinds of subatomic particles are
electrons, protons, and neutrons.

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Structure of the Nuclear Atom Subatomic Particles
Electrons
In 1897, the English physicist J. J. Thomson
(1856–1940) discovered the electron. Electrons
are negatively charged subatomic particles.
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Thomson performed experiments that involved
passing electric current through gases at low
pressure.
The result was a glowing beam, or cathode ray,
that traveled from the cathode to the anode.
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Cathode Ray Tube
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A cathode ray is deflected by a magnet.
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A cathode ray is deflected by electrically
charged plates.
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Thomson concluded that a cathode ray is a
stream of electrons. Electrons are parts of the
atoms of all elements.
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Protons and Neutrons
In 1886, Eugen Goldstein (1850–1930) observed
a cathode-ray tube and found rays traveling in
the direction opposite to that of the cathode rays.
He concluded that they were composed of
positive particles.
Such positively charged subatomic particles are
called protons.
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In 1932, the English physicist James Chadwick
(1891–1974) confirmed the existence of yet
another subatomic particle: the neutron.
Neutrons are subatomic particles with no
charge but with a mass nearly equal to that of a
proton.
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Table 4.1 summarizes the properties of
electrons, protons, and neutrons.
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The Atomic Nucleus
The Atomic Nucleus
How can you describe the structure of
the nuclear atom?
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Structure of the Nuclear Atom The Atomic Nucleus
J.J. Thompson and others supposed the atom
was filled with positively charged material and
the electrons were evenly distributed throughout.
This model of the atom turned out to be short-
lived, however, due to the work of Ernest
Rutherford (1871–1937).
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Ernest Rutherford’s Portrait
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Rutherford’s Gold-Foil Experiment
In 1911, Rutherford and his coworkers at the
University of Manchester, England, directed a
narrow beam of alpha particles at a very thin
sheet of gold foil.
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Rutherford’s Gold-Foil Experiment
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Alpha particles scatter from the gold foil.
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The Rutherford Atomic Model
Rutherford concluded that the atom is mostly
empty space. All the positive charge and almost
all of the mass are concentrated in a small region
called the nucleus.
The nucleus is the tiny central core of an atom
and is composed of protons and neutrons.
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The Atomic Nucleus
In the nuclear atom, the protons and
neutrons are located in the nucleus.
The electrons are distributed around
the nucleus and occupy almost all the
volume of the atom.
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