“…As early as 1995, 27 Al MAS data collected with "narrow bore" 17.6 T magnets provided enhanced distinction among tetrahedral sites in zeolites [1] and was used to study crystalline B 4 Al 18 O 33 [2]; more recently, this approach at 18.8 T was crucial in resolving the problem of "missing aluminum" in spectra of USY-type zeolites [3,4], in determining the mechanism of solid solution of Al 2 O 3 in 1 to 3 mg samples of perovskite-phase MgSiO 3 synthesized at 26 GPa pressure [5], and in detecting low concentrations (≈ 1%) of AlO 5 groups in oxyfluoride glasses [6]. For 17 O, MAS and MQMAS spectra at 17.6 and 18.8 T have provided important new insights into structure/shift correlations in aluminosilicate zeolites [7,8] and in titanosilicate gels [9]; in oxides with somewhat lower C Q values, 17 O MAS spectra may be highly resolved at this field, dominated almost completely by chemical shift instead of second order quadrupolar line shapes [10]. For nuclides with even lower magnetogyric ratios (γ), newly available very high fields may open up whole new systems to high-resolution solid-state NMR, such as 25 Mg in silicate glasses [6].…”