Answer: It showed that all atoms contain electrons.
Explanation:
- J.J. Thomson's experiments inside a cathode ray tube in the presence of an electric field showed that all atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles "electrons".
- Also, Thomson's plum pudding model of the atom had negatively-charged electrons embedded within a positively-charged "soup."
- Furthermore, Rutherford's gold foil experiment showed that the atom is mostly empty space with a tiny positively-charged nucleus.
- Then, Rutherford proposed the nuclear model of the atom based on these results.
