Systems for providing centrifugal machines with grinding functionality

A method of adapting a dual asymmetric centrifugal mixer for grinding one or more materials comprising:

• positioning in a container of the dual asymmetric centrifugal mixer, through an opening of the container, where the container is adapted to be subject to centrifugal force applied by the dual asymmetric centrifugal mixer, one or more units of non-spherical grinding media, wherein the one or more units of the non-spherical grinding media have a base for contacting a base of the container and a top opposite from the base;
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• securing a lid on the opening of the container, wherein the one or more units of the non-spherical grinding media are prevented from toppling, where, once fallen over, a plane defined by a contact surface of the base of the fallen unit of the non-spherical grinding media is no longer parallel with a plane defined by the base of the container, by at least one of:
• securing the lid sufficiently near the top of the one or more units of the non-spherical grinding media to prevent a tilting unit of the one or more units of non-spherical grinding media from toppling, the tilting unit of the non-spherical grinding media contacting the lid, the lid acting as an obstacle to the toppling;
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• having a shortest distance between a center of mass of a unit of the one or more units of non-spherical grinding media and a base of the unit of the one or more units of non-spherical grinding media be less than half of a width of the base of the unit of the one or more units of non-spherical grinding media,
• whereby the one or more materials to be ground is added to the container, and the one or more units of non-spherical grinding media grind the one or more materials when the container is subject to the centrifugal force applied by the dual asymmetric centrifugal mixer.