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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by pishpash on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @02:09PM (#33974125)
Star stuff sounds like some German element.
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by emmelaich on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:59PM (#33975695)
Exactly what I thought! I checked with google translate.

star stuff = sternzeug. stern stoff = star fabric

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by hibbelig on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:58PM (#33977452)
Stoff had more than one translation into English. One is cloth. Another refers to substances. Eg hydrogen is called Wasserstoff in German: water-stuff
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by dejj on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:20PM (#33977715)
See “waterstuff” in the Uncleftish Beholding:

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/110/docs/uncleftish_beh...

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