Ernest Rutherford made the alpha particles to fall on the thin gold foil. So, most of the alpha particle travelled through the gold foil peircing it or not?

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When alpha particles fall on thin gold foil, most of them were found to be piercing foil. This prove that most of the part of atom were empty and only 1 alpha particle was found to return at same path out of 20,000 alpha particles.

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