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{{blockquote|While the negative electricity is concentrated on the extremely small corpuscle, the positive electricity is distributed throughout a considerable volume. An atom would thus consist of minute specks, the negative corpuscles, swimming about in a sphere of positive electrification, like raisins in a parsimonious plum-pudding, units of negative electricity being attracted toward the centre, while at the same time repelling each other.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=25 August 1906 |title=What is Matter? |url=https://archive.org/details/b19974760M1456/page/328/mode/2up |journal=The Chemist and Druggist |volume=69 |issue=8 |pages=329–330}}</ref>}}

The analogy was never used by Thomson nor his colleagues. It seems to have been acoined conceit ofby popular science writers to make the model easier to understand for the layman.<ref name=HonGoldstein2013/>

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