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Rutherford Gold Foil Experiment

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Ernest Rutherford famously described his experimental results as being akin to "firing a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and the shell bouncing back at you." This observation led to the disproof of which of the following models of the atom?
A

Bohr model

B

Quantum model

C

Solid sphere model

D

Plum pudding model

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