In Rutherford\'s gold foil experiment, he concluded that the atomis mostly empty space because most alpha particles went through,also some alpha particles were bounced back and some were deflecteddue to the presence of a positive nucleus in the center of theatom.

Did he discover the presence of neutrons and electrons in thisexperiment? if so how did he know that?

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No Ernest Rutherford did not discover the presence of neutrons in his gold foil experiment The exper... View the full answer