Chemistry, asked by shreyamenon6336, 1 year ago

Why alpha particles are used in the rutherford experiment?

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Answered by Ajay1291

The initial discovery was made by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909 when they performed the gold foil experiment in collaboration with Rutherford, in which they fired a beam of alpha particles (helium nuclei) at foils of gold leaf only a few atoms thick.

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