Question

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

There is a dense, positively charged mass in the center of an atom.

Gold is not as dense as previously thought.

Negative and positive charges are spread evenly throughout an atom.

Alpha particles have a positive charge.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The answer is going to be the first option. What they found out is that atoms are made up of mostly space, but there is a positively charged mass in the center of the atom.