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Neutron diffraction experiments on powders are used to investigate the quantum mechanical behaviour of uniaxial rotators, i.e. NH3-molecules in Ni(NH3)6(PF6)2, Co(NH3)6(PF6)2 and Ni(NH3)6I2. A diffuse temperature dependent component of the total scattering, modulated ∼ sin QrH-H/QrH-H, is observed at a temperature of ≃ 20 K and below. This observation is due to the fact, that on cooling the sample to kT ∼ B (rotational constant) the rotational ground state is strongly populated. The ground state of a uniaxial free rotator, however, is completely polarized. As a consequence the scattering of those NH3 groups being in the ground state becomes coherent and is observable in diffraction experiments.