How did Rutherford prepare the gold leaf for the gold leaf test?

[Hasal]

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

 

[berkeman]

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

What have you found in your reading and research so far? Please post links to your sources. Thank you.

Also, is this question for schoolwork?

 

[Hasal]

Welcome to PF.What have you found in your reading and research so far? Please post links to your sources. Thank you.

Also, is this question for schoolwork?

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 he make the thickness of the gold so small?(thikness of gold foil- 0.6 μm)

Is it possible to believe that the technology called gold beating has been used for this?
Thank you.

Gold beating:- https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF03215119.pdf

The experiment:-
https://www.vrlabacademy.com/NewsDe...World--Rutherford-s-Gold-Foil-Experiment.html

 

[berkeman]

Dear sir, I am a high school student, so this is for schoolwork.

Thank you; I've moved your thread to the schoolwork forums now.

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.

Yes, so they used an evacuated tube for the experiments, it appears:

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/sivulka2/

So how did he make the thickness of the gold so small?(thikness of gold foil- 0.6 μm)

Is it possible to believe that the technology called gold beating has been used for this?

That's an interesting question. I'm still looking for that information for that time period...

 

[tech99]

A book of Gold Leaf ("Dutch Metal") can be purchased from a lab equipment supplier for £17. I am not sure if Rutherford had to make it even thinner.

 

[snorkack]

The original Geiger article can actually be found:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspa.1910.0038
Geiger comments on metals being "available" in different thicknesses, except tin, which was "available" in only one thickness. Suggesting that Geiger used foils prepared by others for other purposes, and was restricted to thicknesses others had chosen.

 

[hutchphd]

Is it possible to believe that the technology called gold beating has been used for this?

Yes. This is very old tech.