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When a gold foil is bombarded with alpha particles,a small fraction of the alpha particles were scattered at large angles.The large scattering angles


A) suggested that the positive charges in an atom were uniformly distributed throughout the atom.
B) were consistent with all of the negative charge of the atom being concentrated at the center of the atom.
C) suggested that the negative charges in an atom were uniformly distributed throughout the atom.
D) required that the positive charge and most of the mass of the atom be concentrated in a very small region.
E) were consistent with the idea that the atom has a neutral nucleus.

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