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Posted by Molly on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 12:02am.

In Rutherford's Gold Foil experiment, he bombarded gold with alpha particles and discovered the ....

electron?

Physics check - DrBob222, Friday, April 11, 2008 at 12:21am
the atom was mostly space.
http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/timeline//pages/1911.html
Physics check - Molly, Friday, April 11, 2008 at 12:43am
nucleus?
- Physics check - DrBob222, Friday, April 11, 2008 at 1:17am
  that would fit.

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