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Rutherford gold foil experiment showed several new things about the structure of atom.which results support the claim that the atom has a dense, positively charged core? Choose the two statement that apply.

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RUTHERFORDS EXPERIMENT

Explanation:

Physicist Ernest Rutherford established the nuclear theory of the atom with his gold-foil experiment. When he shot a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil, a few of the particles were deflected. He concluded that a tiny, dense nucleus was causing the deflections.

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