The Gold Foil Used by Ernest Rutherford in His Investigations $\mu$

question 18

Multiple Choice

The gold foil used by Ernest Rutherford in his investigations of atomic structure was approximately 1 $\mu$ m thick.Given that the radius of a gold atom is approximately 130 pm, how many atoms thick was the foil?

• A)4 * 10³
• B)4 * 10⁶
• C)4 * 10⁹
• D)4 * 10¹⁰
• E)4 *10¹²

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