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Almost all of the early work in macroscopic (Liquid Drop Model) nuclear physics idealized the nucleus as an object (spherical or deformed) with a constant uniform density inside a sharp surface. This is possible, of course, because the nuclear density is fairly uniform in the interior and the falloff of the density in the surface is localized (for heavy nuclei at least) to a region that is thin compared to the size of the system.
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Hasse, R.W., Myers, W.D. (1988). Characterization of Leptodermous Distributions. In: Geometrical Relationships of Macroscopic Nuclear Physics. Springer Series in Nuclear and Particle Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83017-4_2
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