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Dear sir, I am a high school student, so this is for schoolwork. While learning about Rutherford's gold leaf test in the study of atomic structure, I was taught that it was done by shining a beam of accelerated alpha rays on a gold leaf. Alpha rays can be blocked by air or by paper. So how did...

How did Rutherford prepare the gold leaf for the gold leaf test (at that time)