Based on the article “Will the real atomic model please stand up?,” why did J.J. Thomson experiment with cathode ray tubes?

Thomson used cathode ray tubes to investigate what the rays were. His experiments showed that the rays were made of tiny negatively charged particles, later called electrons, rather than being just a beam of energy. Therefore, the correct choice is “to determine that electric beams in cathode ray tubes were actually made of particles.”

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