Nuclear density
Nuclear density is the density of the nucleus of an atom, averaging about 2.3×10 kg/m. The descriptive term nuclear density is also applied to situations where similarly high densities occur, such as within neutron stars.
The nuclear density for a typical nucleus can be approximately calculated from the size of the nucleus, which itself can be approximated based on the number of protons and neutrons in it. The radius of a typical nucleus, in terms of number of nucleons, is
where
is the mass number and
is 1.25 fm, with deviations of 0.2 fm from this value. The density of the nucleus is thus: