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The “fatal flaw” in Rutherford’s model of the atom was the idea that if the electrons were ________.

orbiting the nucleus, changing direction and thus giving off energy, the electrons would lose all energy and collapse into the nucleus

moving so rapidly, they would spiral away from the nucleus and be lost

not moving, they could not maintain their distance from the nucleus

located too far from the nucleus, they would not be attracted

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The correct option is A. Rutherford model of the atom consider an atom to be made up of a central nucleus with electrons orbiting around it. The nucleus is considered to be tiny, heavy and its positively charged while the electrons are negatively charged. The shortcoming of this model is that it was not able to explain how the positive nucleus was not able to attract the negative electrons and pull them inside the nucleus. 

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