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Enlist the conclusions drawn by Rutherford from his α-ray scattering experiment.
- Since most alpha particles pass through the gold foil without being deflected, most of the space in the atom is .
- A small percentage of alpha-particles were deflected, suggesting that the atom's takes up very little space, and a small fraction of alpha-particles were deflected by \(180\)°, indicating that the atom's positive charge and mass were concentrated in a very small volume within the atom.
- Rutherford also concluded from the data that the radius of the nucleus is around \(105\) times than the radius of atom.
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