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It is preserved in a display case filled with pressurized dry nitrogen and stored in

a vault under the third basement of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.

Each year on Rutherford's birthday, August 30, his model is raised from its vault,

under heavy guard, for viewing by invitation only, for precisely 79 minutes, in honor

of element #79 ... Gold ... commemorating Rutherford's seminal gold-foil experiment.

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