I think it would be Neutrons. (:
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That the mass of an atom is mostly located in a small nucleus.
The conclusion was that an atom has a nucleus (center) with a positive charge.
Deflection of alpha particles
In the experiment, Rutherford found the nucleus using gold foil.because he used a thin sheet of gold foil.Because he used a gold foil (the only metal that can be hammered into a 1 atom thick foil without tearing) in an attempt to scatter alpha particles.The unexpected result that instead of all of the alpha particles scattering through small forward angles, a few bounced almost directly back to the source. This made the Thompson "plum pudding" model of the atom unworkable and suggested that each atom had a tiny "infinitely hard" kernel somewhere inside it. Rutherford named this kernel the nucleus.
In Rutherford's gold foil experiment, some of the Alpha particles aimed at gold atoms bounced back, suggesting that a solid mass was at the center of the atom.They suggested that most of the mass of the atom is concentrated at the center and the center is positively charged.
His experiment with the gold foil and the beam of positively charged particles proved that the nucleus of the atom is not solid. The beam past through the foil and bounced back. Rutherford's experiment contradicted Thomson's theory that an atom is solid.
gold foil.
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yes it was tested by the gold foil experiment
Rutherfords experiment proved the existence of a nucleus as some alpha particles "bounced back" from the gold foil sample . Thomson model did not involve a nucleus and predicted just a slight deflection or none at all.
Everyone thought that the alpha particles would go through the gold- foil with little deflection. When the alpha particle passed straight through the gold atoms with no deflection or bounced straight back a small fraction bounced off at a large angle, or bounced straight back to the source. Rutherford came up with a new theory of the atom, that the atom is mostly empty space and in the center there is a nucleus. this is known as the nucleus atom.
he shot tiny alpha particles throug a piece of gold foil.
he shot tiny alpha particles throug a piece of gold foil. -Apex
That atoms have a positively charged nucleus.
That the mass of an atom is mostly located in a small nucleus.
was wandering the smae thing but i think they just developed rutherfords theory by doing the gold foil experiment in depth