Answer to Question #167383 in General Chemistry for liz

Question

All of the following could be deduced from Rutherford’s gold foil experiment except:

  Positive charge is clustered in the structure of an atom 

  There is a dense nuclear center in an atom that contains all of the positive charge 

  Positive charge makes up the entire body of an atom just as Thomson’s plum pudding model shows 

  An atom is composed or mostly empty space 

  Tiny negative charges compose most of the atomic structure 

Answer 1

The Rutherford Gold Foil Experiment offered the first experimental evidence that led to the discovery of the nucleus of the atom as a small, dense, and positively charged atomic core. ... With Geiger and Marsden's experimental evidence, Rutherford deduced a model of the atom, discovering the atomic