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in the model of gold foil and passing alpha particles,whyshould they use only gold foil they could have also used copper foil? even copper can also be beaten into thin sheets

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Hi Pradeep!

Gold is the most malleable and ductile pure metal. Gold can be made thinner than copper. Because of this, gold foil is used for alpha particle scattering.

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