Millikan's oil-drop experiment
A)established the charge on an electron.
B)showed that all oil drops carried the same charge.
C)provided support for the nuclear model of the atom.
D)suggested that some oil drops carried fractional numbers of electrons.
E)suggested the presence of a neutral particle in the atom.

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Millikan's oil-drop experiment established the charge on an electron by measuring the motion of charged oil droplets in an electric field, allowing the calculation of the charge on each individual electron.

Millikan's Oil-Drop Experiment