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

Answer 1

D, there is a dense,positively charged mass in the center of an atom

Answer 2

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

Step-by-step explanation:

Rutherford gave the idea that there is a dense part resent in the center of an atom which he named as a nucleus. When he shot a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil, a few particles were deflected. By this experiment he concluded that a tiny, dense nucleus was causing the deflections inside the center of an atom. He also concluded that most of the space inside the atom is empty because most of the α-particles passed through the gold foil passed through it without getting deflected.