NQR View of Solid Phases of NOCl

Abstract

Abstract Chlorine NQR studies of solid nitrosyl chloride NOC1 between 110 and 212 K are reported. In the temperature dependence an order-disorder phase transition near 145 K, found by X-ray diffraction, is confirmed. Unusual hysteretic NQR signal behaviour indirectly proves also the low temperature phase transition below 100 K. In the measured temperature region fast relaxing mechanisms are present. The upper limit of the expected 14N NQR frequency is estimated using the Townes-Dailey approach.