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The drawback of Rutherford's model was that they failed to explain the stability of an atom.


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Rutherford's model could not explain this phenomenon because if a charged particle is in motion, it radiates energy which can cause it to collapse to the nucleus making it unstable. Rutherford's model could not explain the stability of the atom.


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