Rehydroxylation [RHX] dating is a developing technology for dating fired clay ceramics. It is based on the principle that after a ceramic is removed from the kiln, it immediately begins to recombine chemically with moisture from the environment and thus increases in weight. This weight increase provides an accurate measure of the extent of rehydroxylation [RHX]. The dating clock is provided by the fact that the RHX process follows a precise kinetic law: the weight gain increases as the fourth root of the time which has elapsed since firing. The RHX method and the power law were first discovered by scientists from the University of Manchester and the University of Edinburgh.
Rehydroxylation [RHX] dating is a developing technology for dating fired clay ceramics. It is based on the principle that after a ceramic is removed from the kiln, it immediately begins to recombine chemically with moisture from the environment and thus increases in weight. This weight increase provides an accurate measure of the extent of rehydroxylation [RHX]. The dating clock is provided by the fact that the RHX process follows a precise kinetic law: the weight gain increases as the fourth root of the time which has elapsed since firing. The RHX method and the power law were first discovered by scientists from the University of Manchester and the University of Edinburgh.