In Rutherford experiment, generally the thin foil of heavy atoms like gold, platinum etc. have been used to be bombarded by the α-particles. If a thin foil of light atoms like aluminium etc. is used, what difference would be observed from the above results?

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Heavy metals have a heavy nucleus and contain a large amount of positive change in their nucleus. By using heavy metals like gold and platinum in Rutherford's experiment, a large number of α-particles get deflected and experience a repulsion thus finding it hard for these α-particles to retrace thei

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