Rutherford’s gold foil experiment provided evidence for which of the following statements?

ANegative and positive charges are spread evenly throughout an atom.
BAlpha particles have a positive charge.
CGold is not as dense as previously thought.
DThere is a dense, positively charged mass in the center of an atom. Reset Selection

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The answer is (c.) There is a dense, positively charged mass in the center of an atom
In 1899, Ernest Rutherford, a British physicist conducted a study of the absorption of radioactivity by thin sheets of metal foil. On this experiment, he concluded that all the positive charge and the mass of the atom is concentrated in a small fraction of the total volume of the atom which is called the Nucleus. Â