Q. Rutherford's famous experiment with particles used this metal

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In the famous -ray scattering experiment, Rutherford bombarded, a thin foil of gold (Au) with -particles and found that most of the -particles passed undeflected and a few returned back. By this experiment, he found that in centre every atom contains a nucleus.