Cake shrinkage
Separation of the cake from the vial wall. Indicates moisture uptake after drying, or a closure-integrity failure.
Related terms
- Cake
- The porous solid remaining after lyophilisation. Its appearance is a direct readout of cycle control.
see also Lyophilisation · Collapse temperature
Where this term appears
The glossary exists to make record pages readable without a chemistry degree. Every technical term on a report resolves here.
- Assay report records — the term appears in result tables, peak tables and provenance blocks
- Method references — where the measurement behind the term is defined
- All 23 glossary terms beginning with C