Rutherford scattering
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Rutherford scattering

The scattering undergone by a stream of heavy charged particles fired at a sample of a heavy metal, caused by exposure to coulombic forces in the atomic nuclei of the sample.

[After Ernest Rutherford.]

Rutherford scattering

The scattering undergone by a stream of heavy charged particles, generally alpha particles fired at a sample of a heavy metal, caused by exposure to coulomb forces exerted by the atomic nuclei of the sample. The patterns produced by such scattering off an extremely thin sheet of gold were early evidence that atoms contain a tiny, positively charged core, what is now called the atomic nucleus.

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Rutherford scattering (redirected from Alpha particle scattering)

Rutherford scattering
(redirected from Alpha particle scattering)