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why were alpha particles used in rutherford's experiment

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Answered by MishaDagar
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The initial discovery was made by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909 when they performed the gold foilexperiment in collaboration withRutherford, 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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