Rutherford concluded from his evidence collected from the gold foil experiment that electrons were widely separated and there was a dense positively charged

Question

the deflection of the particles.

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Electron

Answer 1

Yes, Rutherford concluded that the majority of the atom's mass and positive charge must be located in a small, dense region called the nucleus, while the electrons were widely spread outside the nucleus, occupying mostly empty space. This was based on his observation that most of the alpha particles passed straight through the gold foil with little to no deflection, indicating that the atoms were mostly empty space. However, a few alpha particles were deflected at large angles, which led him to propose that they were interacting with the relatively small, dense, and positively charged nucleus at the center of the atom.