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In the early 1900s, Ernest Rutherford set up an experiment to study the atom. He bombarded thin metal sheets with protons and neutrons. He found that most of particles got deflected a bit, but some of them bounced back as if bouncing off a brick wall. What conclusion came from this experiment?

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Atoms are mostly empty space.

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