Ernest Rutherford carried out his work on discovery of nucleus with:

silver foil experiment

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gold foil experiment

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β -

particle experiment

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None of the above

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Solution

The correct option is C gold foil experiment
Ernest Rutherford carried out his work on the discovery of nucleus of an atom with gold foil experiment.
Rutherford designed an experiment for this. In this experiment, fast-moving $α$ -particles were made to fall on a thin gold foil.
Hence, option $B$ is correct.

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