which metal did Rutherford select for his Alpha particle scattering experiment and why
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Rutherford selected a thin sheet of gold for his experiment because for his experiment he wanted a very thin sheet for examining the atoms and gold has a high property of melleability (property of metals of converting into thin sheets).
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Gold
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Because it is a highly malleable metal which can be beaten into thin sheets.
If the metal he selected would have been too thick the alpha particles could have not been able to pass through the hollow area of atoms
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