{"id":34071,"date":"2024-08-29T08:15:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T08:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entri.app\/question-answer\/why-would-rutherford-choose-gold-for-his-foil-experiment\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T08:15:39","slug":"why-would-rutherford-choose-gold-for-his-foil-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entri.app\/question-answer\/why-would-rutherford-choose-gold-for-his-foil-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Why would Rutherford choose gold for his foil experiment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Gold is the most malleable metal and he wanted the thinnest layer as possible. <\/li>\n<li>Platinum is the most ductile metal. Gold, silver and platinum are inert metals.<\/li>\n<li>Silver has the highest electrical conductivity.<\/li>\n<li>Using this experiment Rutherford states that the atom is mostly empty space with a tiny, dense, positively-charged nucleus. <\/li>\n<li>Based on these results, Rutherford proposed the nuclear model of the atom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold is the most malleable metal and he wanted the thinnest layer as possible. Platinum is the most ductile metal. Gold, silver and platinum are inert metals. Silver has the highest electrical conductivity. Using this experiment Rutherford states that the atom is mostly empty space with a tiny, dense, positively-charged nucleus. 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