In Rutherford's gold foil experiment, most of the alpha particles:

passed straight through the gold foil

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were absorbed by the gold foil

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were deflected by the gold foil

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None of the above

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The correct option is B passed straight through the gold foil
In this experiment, most of the alpha particles passed straight through the gold foil. Only some particles were deflected. Hence, it was concluded by Rutherford that the atom consists of large empty space and the positive
charge is confined to a very little space in the atom.

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