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Multiple-quantum (MQ) and satellite-transition (ST) magic-angle spinning (MAS) are two very similar techniques used to obtain high-resolution or ‘isotropic’ NMR spectra of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei. In a variety of materials it is observed that some STMAS peaks are very broad compared with the corresponding MQMAS peaks, sometimes so broad that they are unobservable. We present 17 O ( I =5/2) NMR spectra of two materials, chondrodite (2Mg 2 SiO 4 · Mg(OH) 2 ) and clinohumite (4Mg 2 SiO 4 ·Mg(OH) 2 ), exhibiting this phenomenon and show that the cause is motional broadening arising from the combined effects of molecular reorientation, the quadrupolar interaction and MAS. |