Chlorine nuclear quadrupole resonance lineshape in the cubic antifluorite K2OsCl6
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Chlorine nuclear quadrupole resonance lineshapes are reported for the cubic antifluorite K2OsCl6 in the temperature range 70–300 K. For temperatures above 172 K the spectrum consists of a single symmetric line; for temperatures below 172 K an asymmetric line is observed which can be represented as a sum of two symmetric lines. The symmetric lines are temperature dependent mixtures of Lorentzian and Gaussian profiles. The explanation is that the nuclear quadrupole resonance lines observed in K2OSCl6 are inhomogeneously broadened by temperature dependent local strains caused by point defects and dislocations.