Ball-milling equipment (VIDEO)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Caption

Ball-milling is one form of mechanochemistry, with starting materials added to stainless steel tubes containing stainless steel balls and shaken at extremely high speeds (beyond what’s visible to the camera!)

Credit

Bogna Baliszewska/OIST

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License

CC BY

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