An extremely sheet of was used in Rutherford's alpha particle scattering experiment.

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Solution

The correct option is C gold
Gold is an extremely malleable metal, that is, it can be beaten into thin sheets. Because of this property of gold, Rutherford used it for the scattering experiment.

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