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Ernest Rutherford's gold-foil experiment showed which of the following?

Ernest Rutherford's gold-foil experiment showed which of the following?-example-1
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Ernest Rutherford's gold-foil experiment showed the density of atoms.
The experiment proved that most of an atom is empty space with a very small positively charged nucleus in the middle.
So, from the given statements he following is true:
Ernest Rutherford's gold-foil experiment showed the existence of a dense, positively charged center in an atom.
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