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What did Robert Millikan's oil drop experiment prove?
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mass of the neutron
mass of the neutron
mass of the electron
mass of the electron
mass of the proton
mass of the proton
mass of the nucleus
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None of the choices. Millikan's oil-drop experiment measured the elementary electric charge (the charge of the electron) and showed that electric charge is quantized.
He determined e ≈ 1.60 × 10^−19 C. (The electron mass was obtained later by combining this charge with earlier e/m measurements.)
He determined e ≈ 1.60 × 10^−19 C. (The electron mass was obtained later by combining this charge with earlier e/m measurements.)
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