How did atomic theory change because of the gold foil experiment?
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The main conclusion from the Gold foil experiment conducted by Rutherford was that most of the space of atom is actually empty of the Orbitals where the very tiny electrons move .
And only the positive charge lies in the small space of the whole atom.
For example, consider the following, you can imagine the size of nucleus in an atom as a cricket ball kept at the centre of the whole stadium considered as the atom.
Another, drawback, of Rutherford's theory was that electrons would continuously emit radiation to revolve and thus their energies would decrease due to which their distance from nucleus would spirally decrease and they would eventually fall into the nucleus.However, this was later proved wrong by the fact that electrons do not directly emit radiations while revolving but actually revolve in well defined orbits or shells having particular amount of energy or distance from the nucleus According to the Neils Bohr's theory.