Chemistry: Atoms First (2nd Edition)

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1305079248
ISBN 13: 978-1-30507-924-3

Chapter 1 - Review Questions - Page 51: 6

Answer

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Work Step by Step

Due to the plum pudding structure it was expected that the alpha particles will pass through the thin gold foil with very minor deflection but the actual experiment results showed that some particles were very much deflected from their original path, some particle even took a 180 degree turn this suggested that the positive charge of atom was concentrated at the center of the atom.
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