Astronomy
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ISBN: 9781938168284
Author: Andrew Fraknoi; David Morrison; Sidney C. Wolff
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Chapter 5, Problem 23E
Explain the results of Rutherford’s gold foil experiment and how they changed our model of the atom.
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