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 ...

The formula is H 2 O so the dot and cross diagram includes two H atoms and one O atom. H has 1 outer electron ... so a triple bond forms between them. The structure of nitrogen is N≡N, showing ...

(London and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1923.) 2s. 6d. net. (2) The Atom and the Bohr Theory of its Structure: an Elementary Presentation. By H. A. Kramers Helge Holst. Translated from ...