In Rutherford's famous gold foil scattering experiment, he found that most alpha particles would pass through the foil undeflected. Which one of the following nuclear properties can be inferred from this observation?
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While Rutherford's experiment did show most of these but looking at the single fact given, it only means that most of the atom was empty space and the nucleus must be small.
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