A 112°C Test May Separate 1,000-Year-Old Pottery From Recent Forgeries
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[SciTech+] "Authenticity of Ancient Clay Artifacts Determined by Magnetic Analysis... 112℃ Standard"
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Joo-young = When determining whether clay artifacts of unknown origin, such as pottery held by museums or archaeological institutions, are genuine or fake based on what remains in the artifact...
Science Writing, 31 Aug (EFE).- A team of scientists has developed a tool that allows to determine the authenticity of ancient clay and ceramic pieces, which will help detect possible forgeries. The method, developed by a research team of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography of the UC San Diego, United States, and published [...] La entrada Develop a magnetic method that allows to detect ceramic forgeries was first published in HolaNews.
A 112°C test may separate 1,000-year-old pottery from recent forgeries
Museums around the world now have a new tool to distinguish real ancient clay artifacts from fakes. The research team at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, led by postdoctoral scholar Yoav Vaknin, found a way to distinguish the magnetism that clay materials acquire over time from the magnetism they acquired the day they were made.
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