Closure integrity
Whether the stopper and crimp maintain the container's seal and vacuum. A failure lets in moisture and oxygen.
Related terms
- Cake shrinkage
- Separation of the cake from the vial wall. Indicates moisture uptake after drying, or a closure-integrity failure.
- Headspace oxygen
- Oxygen in the gas space above the product. Correlates with sulfoxide content and is essentially never measured.
see also Cake
see also Oxidation · Closure integrity
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