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Rutherford's Set up and Predictions

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Most of the $α$ - particles passed straight through the gold foil. This proved the existence of empty space in an atom. If it is true enter 1 and if false then enter 0.

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In Rutherford experiment, $α$ particles are passed straight through the gold foil. From that he proved that atom has lot of empty space in it as only few $α$ particles returned.

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