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Give the two drawbacks of Rutherford's atomic model.

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Drawbacks of Rutherford .s atomic model
1. It failed to explain the stabilty of the atom
2 It does not given any about the distribution of electrons around the nucleus
3 It fails to explain the spectrum of hydrogen atom
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