g In 1920, Stern and Gerlach performed an experiment that first demonstrated Group of answer choices energy quantization. space quantization. orbital angular momentum quantization. magnetic orbital quantization. that particles behave like waves.

B. space quantization.

Explanation:

In 1921, Otto Stern developed the idea behind this experiment, while Walther Gerlach performed the actual experiment in 1922. The Ster-Gerlach experiment provides prove to the fact that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized. To demonstrate the experiment, silver atoms were made to travel through a magnetic field path.

Before they hit the screen(usually a glass slide), they were deflected because of their non-zero magnetic moment. There was an expected result for this experiment, but the actual observation on the glass slide was a continuous distribution of the silver atoms that actually hit the glass. This experiment was useful in proving that in all atomic-scale systems, there was a quantization of angular momentum.

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