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What did the bouncing back of a few alpha particles in the gold foil experiment suggest about the atom?

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Atoms and isotopes

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What did the bouncing back of a few alpha particles in the gold foil experiment suggest about the atom?.

  1. A.Atoms are mostly empty space
  2. B.Most of the atom's mass is concentrated in the nucleus
  3. C.Electrons are embedded in a positive charge
  4. D.Atoms have equal numbers of protons and electrons

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