Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, designed an experiment to study how alpha particles, with a 2+ charge, interact with a piece of very thin gold foil. Rutherford bombarded a very thin piece of gold foil with a stream of postively charged particles known as the alpha particles. He found that most of the alpha particles passed straight through the foil. This shows that most of the atom is empty space. However, a few of the alpha particles bounced back and some of the alpha particles were defected. This means that the center of the atom, or nucleus, is positively charged because it repelled the alpha particles, the charge of which is positive. A direct collision repels an alpha particle backward. This shows that the center of the atom of gold is a tiny core heavier than an alpha particle. Rutherford concluded that an atom was made of a very dense, positively charged nucleus surrounded primarily by empty space in which the electrons could be found. The radius of the nucleus is extremly small, about 1/100 000 that of the atom itself. The volme of the atom is essentially the space that the electrons occupy. Now we know that the electrons move about the nucleus, not in a fixed location.
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In Rutherford's gold foil experiment atoms are mostly empty space.
The alpha particules went straight threw the gold foil
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They traveled through the empty spaces of the gold foil.
Rutherford was a scientist who shot alpha particles through a very thin sheet of gold foil. The results of this experiment are the following: -Almost all alpha particles passed right through the Gold foil -A few alpha particlas were deflected and repelled .....These conclusions show that the majority of the atom of gold is empty space except for a small, positively charged nucleus. This nucleus is the reason why some alpha particlas were deflected(Alpha particles have a positive charge, which is repelled by a positive nucleus).
Ernest Rutherford used the gold foil experiment in 1908 .
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The gold foil experiment supplanted the plum pudding theory. The gold foil experiment led to the discovery that most of the atoms mass is located in the dense nucleus.
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In Rutherford's gold foil experiment atoms are mostly empty space.
Rutherford supervised the experiment in his famous beta particle scatter experiment with gold foil, so he is given credit.
The gold-foil experiment led scientists to conclude that an atom's volume is mainly unoccupied.
As a result of the gold foil experiment, a positively charged nucleus is surrounded by mostly empty space.
The alpha particules went straight threw the gold foil
The atom.
The nuclear atom was discovered by Ernest Rutherford. He did it with a gold foil experiment.