The gold foil experiment showed that the atom consists of the small, massive, positively charged nucleus.
Who conducted the experiment that showed that atoms were mostly made up of empty space?
Rutherford perform an experiment which shows that the atom is mostly composed of empty space with a very small, dense, positively-charged nucleus. Based on these results, Rutherford proposed the nuclear model of the atom and this experiment is known is Rutherford's gold foil experiment. The atom is mostly composed of empty spaces. The size of the atom is round about 1/100,000.
So we can conclude that: The gold foil experiment showed that the atom consists of the small, massive, positively charged nucleus.
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