It is b because it just is
        
             
        
        
        
Rutherford overturned Thomson's model in 1911 with his well-known gold foil experiment in which he demonstrated that the atom has a tiny and heavy nucleus. Rutherford designed an experiment to use the alpha particles emitted by a radioactive element as probes to the unseen world of atomic structure.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Answer: Solid
Since it cuddled all together in the cylinder it must be an solid maybe a block
 
        
             
        
        
        
Most erosion is caused by winds breaking up rock