In the Early 1900s, Ernest Rutherford Performed an Experiment with Thin

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Essay

In the early 1900s, Ernest Rutherford performed an experiment with thin foils of gold and alpha particles to probe the structure of the atoms. He observed that most of these alpha particles penetrated the foil and were not deflected. Realizing that atoms are electrically neutral (that is, they have equal numbers of protons and electrons) and that the mass of a proton is significantly greater than the mass of an electron, use Rutherford's data to propose a structural model of an atom.

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