3. Briefly describe Rutherford's experiment, give observations of this experiment.
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Rutherford's gold foil experiment showed that the atom is mostly empty space with a tiny, dense, positively-charged nucleus. Based on these results, Rutherford proposed the nuclear model of the atom.
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Radioactive source at a thin sheet (100 nm thickness) of gold. ... A major fraction of the α-particles bombarded towards the gold sheet passed through it without any deflection, and hence most of the space in an atom is empty.
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