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What were the three major observations Rutherford made in the gold foil experiment?

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The three major observations Rutherford made in the gold foil experiment were
1) Most of the space inside the atom is empty.
2) All the positive charge must be concentrated in a very small space within the atom called nucleus.
3) The size of the nucleus if very small as compared to the size of the atom.
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  1. What were the three major observations Rutherford made in the gold foi...

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  2. Which of the following is a wrong statement?

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  3. If there are no protons in an atom. The consequences are

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  4. 'X' is a subatomic particle. It has neither +ve nor -ve. Then 'X' is

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  5. If an alpha- particle comes closure to a proton, it ………………. Proton.

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  6. Electron do not fall in nucleus, because

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  7. Fluorine atom contains seven electronsin outermost shell, but its vale...

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  8. According to the electrolysis experiments conducted by ……………, the atom...

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  9. Mass of electron is ………………times less than that of proton.

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  10. Neutron was discovered by

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  11. The atoms of same element which have same numbers of protons, but have...

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  12. Match the following. {:("a) Plum pudding or ",),(" watermelon",),("...

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  13. From the above table no. of protons in 'Ar' is

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  14. From the above table valency of 'Ar' is

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  15. From the above table, what is the atomic number fo hydrogen?

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  16. From the above table no. of protons Neon is

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  17. Which of the sub-atomic particle is not in the hydrogen?

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  18. .(6)^(14)C,.(6)^(13)C, .(6)^(12)C what are these?

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  19. In .(6)^(14), how many neutrons are there?

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  20. Joseph John Thomson is appreciable because, he found

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  21. Rutherford is appreciable, because he found that

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