“…Relaxation techniques such as the electrical conductivity relaxation (ECR) [ 168 , 169 , 170 , 171 , 172 , 173 , 174 , 175 , 176 ], mass relaxation (MR, also referred to as weight relaxation or thermogravimetric relaxation) [ 69 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 176 , 177 , 178 ] and unit cell volume relaxation (UCVR) [ 69 , 162 , 179 ] techniques are based on the changing some characteristics of a sample with time after rapid change of the gas-phase composition such as the partial pressure of oxygen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen or water vapors. After such a rapid change, the system solid-state sample–gas phase becomes non-steady-state, and oxygen or/and hydrogen desorbs from the sample or adsorbs on the sample to reach a new steady state.…”