Rutherford bombarded gold foil with alpha (α) particles and found that a small percentage of the particles were deflected. Which of the following was not accounted for by the model he proposed for the structure of atoms?

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Rutherford's model did not account for the total mass of the atom because he believed that all of the mass was concentrated in the nucleus, with electrons having negligible mass. It was later discovered that the mass of the nucleus is only a small fraction of the total mass of the atom, with most of the mass coming from the electrons.

Rutherford Bombarded Gold Foil with Alpha (α) Particles and Found