Ernest Rutherford's experiments in which alpha rays pass through a thin piece of metal foil demonstrated that

A) light is a wave.
B) electrons exist.
C) the atom contains a tiny nucleus containing most of the atom's mass.
D) light is made of particles.
E) neutrons exist.


C

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