And, when zinc sulfide is hit by particles or by anything, by radiation or by particles of greater than a certain critical energy, there is a glow.

当粒子或其他东西,通过辐射或粒子的方式，并且能量高于临界值,撞击到硫化锌的表面上的时候，就会发光。

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About 10 to 15 years later, another physicist, Ernest Rutherford, actually put this plum pudding model to test, Ernest Rutherford and he did it through studies that he'd been doing on radiation that was emitting something called alpha particles.

因此我们要，在上面再做改进,大概过了10到15年，另外一个物理学家,用实验来检测这个李子布丁模型,他一直从事alpha粒子辐射研究。

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