This is known as Rutherford's gold foil experiment. To align with J.J Thompson's Plum Pudding Model, he expects a beam of alpha particles to just pass through the gold foil undisturbed. However, some were deflected at certain angles. Alpha particles are positive, so it would just go straight through the nucleus, but will deflect if it hits the electrons. <em>Therefore, the answer is: </em><span><em>Particles that struck the nucleus went straight.</em></span>
Compounds that are formed when two or more atoms combine to form molecules are called Molecular Compounds.
