We present the first low frequency (0.1-20 Hz) measurements of the complex elastic constant on KSCN single crystals. Our measurements show very slow sample-size dependent elastic relaxations, at temperatures ranging from Tc-40 K up to the order-disorder phase transition temperature Tc. The data can be well explained with the assumption of temperature or equivalent entropy fluctuations. This phenomenon, although intimately related to the thermal-diffusion central peak phenomenon is, to our knowledge, for the first time seen in a macroscopic elastic susceptibility.
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