Question #03bc3
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Mar 12, 2017
Rutherford bombarded nitrogen gas with α particles.
Explanation:
He discovered the nuclear reaction:
He recognized the hydrogen nuclei (protons) because he had prepared seen them in earlier experiments.
Rutherford guessed that hydrogen nuclei were a part of nitrogen nuclei and probably other nuclei as well.
Rutherford proposed that a hydrogen nucleus was a fundamental building block of all nuclei.
He called this particle the proton (Greek protos = "first").
