The quality or state of being sealed against the passage of gases; the property of preventing gas leakage.
From 'gastight' + '-ness' (Germanic suffix for abstract quality). Technical term developed in chemistry and engineering fields.
This abstract noun exists because laboratory workers realized they needed a word for the *degree* of gas-sealing, not just yes-or-no—sometimes a container is only somewhat gastight!
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