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Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiments

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Why Rutherford used only gold foil and not any other metal foil?

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Rutherford used gold for his scattering experiment because gold is the most malleable metal and he wanted thethinnest layer as possible. Thegoldsheet used was around 1000 atoms thick. Therefore, Rutherfordselected a Gold foil in his alpha scatttering experiment. ... Extremly thin gold foil.

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