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In Geiger-Marsden experiments how was charge of alpha particle and charge of gold atom found?
As for the properties of $\alpha$-particles, there is some information in Rutherford's Nobel lecture:
"Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) in 1901 and Sir William Crookes in 1902
suggested that they might ...
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