Question

In rutherford's experiment how was it shown that an atom has a lot of empty space within it

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Answer:

In Ratheford experiment he take a gold foil that is very thin and made up positively charged helium ions which is perfect for the experiment and then he passed the alpha - particles on it the a-particles almost passed from it but when he passed 12000 a-particles then one remind that prove that atoms are empty but in middle there was a little positively charged nucleus