“…Other, more recent examples include the formation of silver amalgam by trituration of AgCl with HgCl 2 [ 107 ], and numerous examples of large-scale processing of slightly soluble inorganic minerals [ 108 ]. Mechanochemistry and milling are used in the synthesis of a wide range of inorganic materials, as in oxide, sulfide, carbide, nitride or boride formation [ 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 ], and are central to mechanical alloying [ 114 , 115 ]. Milling and grinding appear to have been adopted as synthetic techniques first by organic chemists, including Wöhler in the 19th century [ 116 ] and a number of solid-state organic chemistry research groups in the 20th century, notably Paul and Curtin [ 117 ], and Etter [ 118 , 119 ].…”