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Storage window checker

Enter the temperature and humidity of the room your capsules are in, or the weather outside and your thermostat setting, and see where the room sits against the storage windows for gelatin and HPMC.

Units
Room humidity
50%
Room temperature
21 °C

Gelatin Inside the window

HPMC Inside the window

Windows are the ones the major capsule makers publish for sealed cartons, 15 to 25 °C (59 to 77 °F) and 35 to 65% relative humidity, with HPMC's working range of 10 to 70% shown as the wider band. The outdoor-air calculation conserves absolute humidity using the Magnus formula for saturation vapor pressure. The checker describes the room, not the capsules. Capsules that have been in a room outside the window for days take on the room; capsules in a sealed liner take months. Nothing here is advice about what the capsule's contents do for anyone.