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In many nuclear models the properties of nuclear matter enter as limiting conditions. Nuclear matter is a fictitious concept: it should be thought of as the extrapolation of the almost homogeneous conditions in the center of heavy nuclei to an infinite geometry. “Fictitious” means that it is unrealistic for the following reasons.
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Greiner, W., Maruhn, J.A. (1996). Collective Models. In: Nuclear Models. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60970-1_6
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