Millikan's oil-drop experiment A. established the charge on an electron. B. showed that all oil drops carried the same charge. C. provided support for the nuclear model of the atom. D. suggested that some oil drops carried fractional numbers of electrons. E. suggested the presence of a neutral particle in the atom.

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Amira Schultz

29 September, 05:56

Millikan's oil-drop experiment A. established the charge on an electron. B. showed that all oil drops carried the same charge. C. provided support for the nuclear model of the atom. D. suggested that some oil drops carried fractional numbers of electrons. E. suggested the presence of a neutral particle in the atom.

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Collin Mitchell · Answer 1

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This popular experiment enabled us to know the charge of an electron. It was performed by Robert Millikan and Harvey Fletcher and have the process and procedure to measure the elementary electronic charge. In fact, Robert Millikan was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in the year 1923 for how efforts.

They were able to determine the charge by repeating the experiment for several droplets and later proposed that the charges were integer multiples of a particular base value.