Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is, it was roughly the same consistency throughout, with negatively-charged electrons scattered about in it like raisins in a pudding.

1 The electronic structure of sodium can also be shown in a diagram. Each dot represents an electron. Since the atomic number of oxygen is 8, it will have 8 protons in the nucleus. An atom of ...

IN a letter to NATURE of November 25 last Dr. Norman Campbell discusses the problem of the possible consistency of the assumptions about the motion and arrangement of electrons in the atom ...