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 ===== 1.6. Understanding of the structure of atoms is established ===== ===== 1.6. Understanding of the structure of atoms is established =====
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 In 1911, when examining the passage of alpha radiation through a thin metallic foil, [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter1#ernest_rutherford|Rutherford]] found that most of the [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5#alpha_particle|alpha particles]] passed through the foil without changing direction. Some of the particles, however, changed direction, a few up to 180 degrees. From this, Rutherford concluded that atoms are mostly sparse, particle-permeable space and they have a small positively charged [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter2#nucleus|nucleus]] from which the [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5#alpha_particle|alpha particles]] scatter. From the angle of the scattering alpha particles, he calculated that the diameter of the nucleus is approximately one-hundred-thousandth of the diameter of the whole atom. In 1911, when examining the passage of alpha radiation through a thin metallic foil, [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter1#ernest_rutherford|Rutherford]] found that most of the [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5#alpha_particle|alpha particles]] passed through the foil without changing direction. Some of the particles, however, changed direction, a few up to 180 degrees. From this, Rutherford concluded that atoms are mostly sparse, particle-permeable space and they have a small positively charged [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter2#nucleus|nucleus]] from which the [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5#alpha_particle|alpha particles]] scatter. From the angle of the scattering alpha particles, he calculated that the diameter of the nucleus is approximately one-hundred-thousandth of the diameter of the whole atom.
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 +**Ernest Rutherford at McGill University** (via Wikimedia Commons [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernest_Rutherford_at_McGill_University_in_1905.jpg|Ernest Rutherford at McGill University]])
  
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 The first particle [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter16|accelerators]] were developed during the 1930s and in 1932 the first accelerated particle(proton)-induced [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter15|nuclear reaction]], $^1\text{H} + ^7\text{Li} \rightarrow 2 \, ^4\text{He}$, was accomplished. Also in 1932, the husband and wife team, Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie, accomplished creating the first [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter4#artificial_radionuclides|artificial radioactive nucleus]] by bombarding boron, aluminum, and magnesium with [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5#alpha_particle|alpha particles]]. Bombarding aluminum produced <sup>30</sup>P, which [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5|decayed]] by [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5#positron_decay|positron emission]] with a 10 minute [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter6#half_life|half-life]]. [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5#positron|Positrons]], particles with the same mass as an [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter2#electron|electron]] but an opposite charge, were identified two years earlier. The first particle [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter16|accelerators]] were developed during the 1930s and in 1932 the first accelerated particle(proton)-induced [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter15|nuclear reaction]], $^1\text{H} + ^7\text{Li} \rightarrow 2 \, ^4\text{He}$, was accomplished. Also in 1932, the husband and wife team, Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie, accomplished creating the first [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter4#artificial_radionuclides|artificial radioactive nucleus]] by bombarding boron, aluminum, and magnesium with [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5#alpha_particle|alpha particles]]. Bombarding aluminum produced <sup>30</sup>P, which [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5|decayed]] by [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5#positron_decay|positron emission]] with a 10 minute [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter6#half_life|half-life]]. [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5#positron|Positrons]], particles with the same mass as an [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter2#electron|electron]] but an opposite charge, were identified two years earlier.
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 +Wilson Cloud Chamber at AEC's Brookhaven National Laboratory circa 1955 ([[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Wilson_Cloud_Chamber_at_AEC%27s_Brookhaven_National_Laboratory.jpg|ENERGY.GOV, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons]])
  
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