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Which of these describes the essential conclusion of the Rutherford experiment? The atom contains a very small nucleus that contains most of its mass. The proton is positively charged and the neutron has no charge? Atoms are solid spheres with electrons suspended in them like chocolate chips in a cookie. Mass is neither made nor consumed in a chemical reaction.

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The atom contains a vey small small nucleus that contains most of its mass.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Rutherford gold leaf experiment concluded that most (99%) of all the mass of an atom is in the nucleus of the atom, that the nucleus is very small (105 times small than the size of the atom) and that is is positively charged.

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