NOUN
- the volume left at the top of a filled container (bottle or jar or tin) before sealing
How To Use headspace In A Sentence
- For high-acid foods, jars should be filled to within half an inch of the top of the jar; low-acid foods call for one inch of headspace.
- Samples of headspace gas were taken periodically and evaluated for CFC content by GC.
- It should be noted that the void spaces inside the load do not include those in sealed packages, where the pressure may be different from that of the headspace.
- Whenever she leaves for Canada, she automatically goes into a totally different headspace.
- This is the natural headspace for a pop critic who has made the jump to the bookshelf from the blurb-littered world of book, CD and film reviews in glossy magazines.
- I think she got the [accurate] impression that I was in a totally unreachable headspace, and ended the conversation before she'd really said all she wanted to.
- The size of the glass is another chief consideration - there has to be enough headspace for the aroma to develop.
- Did he have to hear the song a lot of times before he got into the right headspace to play something?
- The key to detecting minute levels of the low volatility compounds produced when chicken spoils is a new method of sampling the "headspace" - the air above a test sample. Innovations-report
- Pack the boiling-hot relish into hot, clean pint jars, leaving 1 / 4 inch of headspace.