Mechanocolistry consists of blasting and grinding in inches
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Consider yourself in a chemistry Lab. You may have pictured that there is a scene with a full load of liquids – the fluids that blink of flasks with no strata, solutions that flow into pipes, leaking tubes. It is a cliché, but one accurately describes what these spaces are as many centuries around the world.
There is no plenty of failure or blasts going on Tomislav FriscicThe lab, however. That’s because he and his team at the University of Birmingham, UK, trying to lose the liquid chemistry. The tools in their trade are powerful machines such as ball mill, a grinder filled with metal spheres similar to a mini cement on cement. It may be cruel, but this hardball method can shake the way chemists act, it is free from the “mental prison”, because it has set it away by Friščić, to melt everything.
Chemistry creates many wonders in modern life, from drugs that heal our screens where we talk. If researchers want to make these things from the beginning, they often start by thinking they need to melt their materials. But the mechanical weather, the burgeoning field Friščić is exciting, shows that it is not always necessary. “Macy Maylocoction gives you the freedom of intellectual thinking: ‘Let me try this reaction by healing it’,” says Frišićć. “And, in many cases, it works.”
