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Nuclear Model

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Nuclear Model 

(also model of the nucleus), an approximate method of describing certain nuclear properties that is based on the identification of the nucleus with some other physical system whose properties are either well known or amenable to a relatively simple theoretical analysis. Examples of nuclear models include the following: the degenerate Fermi gas model; the liquid-drop model; the rotator, or top, model; and the shell model. (See.)



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The experiment was a "tour de force," says Michael Pearson of the University of Montreal, adding that the results should help discriminate between different nuclear models.
In other words, just because the nuclear model of a family has the easiest time meeting some basic needs that children may have, it does not necessitate that such a model should be prescriptive in any way with regard to the family relationships which people make by choice and which the government may regulate, such as adoption.
 
 
 
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