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The answerer is being cooperative here though. This is how I would have answered:
"It's a way of doing stuff to stuff"
"What kinds of stuff?"
"Stuff that's like some stuff but unlike other stuff"
"How big is the stuff?"
"Around the size of other stuff"
"Is the stuff inert and durable?"
"As much as that sort of stuff can be"
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Yes, but sufficiently specific questions should be anle to corner any uncooperative answerer playing in good faith.
You don't have to accept that answer to "how big," for example. You can ask, is the stuff organized into discrete items? If so, are they bigger than a cubic mile? If not, are they smaller than a cubic foot? And so on.