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Through what experiment was Thomson's "plum pudding" model proved inaccurate?

A gold foil experiment
B Crookes tube experiment
C gamma ray experiment
D radioactive isotope experiment

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Answer:

A

Step-by-step explanation:

When the particles where shot through gold foil, he found that most of the particles went through. Some scattered in various directions, and a few were even deflected back towards the source.

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