Which describes Ernest Rutherford’s experiment?

Rutherford’s gold-foil experiment fired positively charged alpha particles at a very thin sheet of gold. Most particles passed straight through, showing that atoms are mostly empty space, while a small number bounced back after hitting the tiny, dense, positively charged nucleus. Therefore, the correct choice is “Positive particles are fired at gold foil. Most pass through, but some bounce back.”

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