“If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.”

— Julius Sumner Miller

in Science Demonstrations, #30 Physics of Toys: Electrostatic - Magnetic, Instructional TV Service (1969)

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American physicist 1909–1987

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“If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.”

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