Cake
The porous solid remaining after lyophilisation. Its appearance is a direct readout of cycle control.
Related terms
- Lyophilisation
- Freeze-drying: freezing the solution then subliming the ice under vacuum. Cake structure and residual moisture are the observable outputs.
- Collapse temperature
- The temperature above which a freeze-concentrated matrix loses structure during primary drying. Exceeding it gives a collapsed cake and high residual moisture.
see also Collapse temperature · Residual moisture
see also Lyophilisation
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