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Match each model to what it could NOT explain

Exercise and reference answers

Matching pairs
  1. Left
    Thomson's model
    Right
    disproved by alpha-particle scattering
  2. Left
    Rutherford's model
    Right
    could not explain the atom's stability
  3. Left
    Bohr's model
    Right
    failed for multi-electron atoms

Explanation

The failures are what drove the next model, and they are the examinable part. Source: syllabus Chemistry Part I, Ch 2 Structure of Atom.
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