Question

What did Ernest Rutherford’s gold foil experiment demonstrate about atoms?

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

Rutherford took a thin gold foil and made alpha race particles to pass through it. He saw that most of the particle passed straight through the gold foil . But some deflected in small angles and 1 in 12000 particles deflected/rebounded back.

These observation made Rutherford conclude that-

- Most of the place inside an atom is empty because particles passed straight through.

- some particles deflected in small angles meaning the positive charge in an atom occupies very less space.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

Rutherford's gold foil experiment revealed that most of the alpha particles went right through the gold foil but only a couple got deflected, demonstrating that the atom has mostly empty space with a small, hard, positively charged nucleus. Because of this, Rutherford proposed the nuclear model of the atom.