Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A translation and adoption of the German name (Wasser-stoff) for hydrogen.
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"No, there's no water-stuff in this," answered the manager with a smile.
The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays Laura Lee Hope
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The absorption from atmospheric causes of radiant enemy in these parts he showed was due to "water-stuff," which he hesitated to call aqueous vapor, since the banded spectrum of water was present, and not lines.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Various
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