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Democritus argued that all According to Dalton's atomic theory, Before the discovery of the nucleus,
matter was composed of small, objects are constituted of particles JJ Thomson proposed the 'plum
finite particles that they called referred to as atoms, which are pudding' model of the atom.
atomos, a term derived from the solid spheres that cannot be further According to this model, the atom is
Greek word for “indivisible.” They divided into smaller particles. a sphere of positive charge, and the
thought of atoms as moving Interestingly, this concept bears a negatively charged electrons are
particles that differed in shape resemblance to the model embedded within to balance out the
and size, and which could join developed by the Greeks in the fifth overall positive charge.
together. century BCE.