What did Rutherford's gold foil show about the structure of an atom?

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What did Rutherford's gold foil show about the structure of an atom?

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Answer 1 · 2015-10-06T03:35:22

Rutherford's gold foil experiments (he also used other metal foils) showed that the atom is mostly empty space with a comparatively tiny, massive, positively charged nucleus in the center.

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