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| style="height:20px; width:200px300px; text-align:center;" |'''Observation'''| style="height:20px; width:200px300px; text-align:center;" |'''Conclusion'''
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| style="height:20px; width:200px300px; text-align:center;" |Most of the [[Alpha Particle|alpha particle]]s pass straight through the foil.| style="height:20px; width:200px300px; text-align:center;" |The [[atom]] must be mostly empty space.
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| style="height:20px; width:200px300px; text-align:center;" |Some of the [[Alpha Particle|alpha particle]]s were deflected by a small angle.| style="height:20px; width:200px300px; text-align:center;" |The [[mass]] of the [[atom]] must be concentrated in an extremely small [[Volume (Space)|volume]] in the centre.
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| style="height:20px; width:200px300px; text-align:center;" |A very small number of [[Alpha Particle|alpha particle]]s came back in the direction of the detector. (Deflected more than 90°.)| style="height:20px; width:200px300px; text-align:center;" |The centre of an [[atom]] must have a strong positive charge.
The [[electron]]s must not be in the centre of the [[atom]], they must be [[orbit]]ing the [[nucleus]].
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