Question

Rutherford’s gold foil experiment provided evidence for which of the following statements?

a. Negative and positive charges are spread evenly throughout an atom.
b. Alpha particles have a positive charge.
c. Gold is not as dense as previously thought.
d. There is a dense, positively charged mass in the center of an atom. Reset Selection

Answer 1

The answer is (c.) There is a dense, positively charged mass in the center of an atom
In 1899, Ernest Rutherford, a British physicist conducted a study of the absorption of radioactivity by thin sheets of metal foil. On this experiment, he concluded that all the positive charge and the mass of the atom is concentrated in a small fraction of the total volume of the atom which is called the Nucleus.