The history and necessity of mechanical alloying. M. Sherif El-Eskandarany, in Mechanical Alloying (Second Edition), 2015. 2.5.1.5 Planetary ball mills. The Planetary ball mills are the most popular mills used in MM, MA, and MD scientific researches for synthesizing almost all of the materials presented in Figure 1.1. In this type of mill, the milling media …