“…Tribology —the term introduced by Jost ( Jost, 1990 ) in the 1960s—remains by far the most popular term to date, while mechanochemistry is much less used than tribology , or mechanical alloying . While the organic chemistry community appears to favor the term mechanochemistry , the terms tribology and tribochemistry are more popular amongst chemical engineers and the materials science community ( Huq et al, 2020 ; Moshkovich et al, 2020 ; Moshkovich and Rapoport, 2020 ; Rosenkranz et al, 2020 ; Rosenkranz et al, 2021 ). In addition, the term mechanical activation is widely used in relation to thermal reactions that are facilitated by mechanical pre-treatment ( Pavljukhin et al, 1983 ; Pavlyukhin et al, 1984 ; Boldyrev, 1996 ; Šepelák et al, 1996 ; Boldyrev, 1998 ; Boldyrev, 2006 ; Kumar et al, 2019 ; Singla et al, 2020 ).…”