Inherent vice

Inherent vice is the tendency in physical objects to deteriorate because of the fundamental instability of the components of which they are made, as opposed to deterioration caused by external forces. All objects have some kind of inherent vice as a result of the baseline law of entropy.

This article is about the concept of inherent vice in preservation. For the 2014 film, see Inherent Vice (film).
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