Which statement describes Rutherford model of an atom

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Danny Meyers

24 February, 16:08

Which statement describes Rutherford model of an atom

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Robert Conrad · Answer 1

Robert Conrad 24 February, 19:16

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Jerome Hess · Answer 2

Almost all the mass and all the positive charge of the atom is concentrated in a very small region called the nucleus and the negative charge was distributed throughout the rest of the atom

Explanation:

Rutherford's experiment was to bombard a gold foil with alpha particles, finding that most of the particles change their direction very little, some change it a lot and very few almost recede; With these measurements he came to the conclusion that almost the entire mass of the atom had to be in a very small space that I call a nucleus, in addition as the alpha particles have two positive charges so that there is a force of repulsion the charge of the nucleus must also be positive; with this I enunciate an atomic model:

Almost all the mass and all the positive charge of the atom is concentrated in a very small region called the nucleus and the negative charge was distributed throughout the rest of the atom