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I'd probably start with this which describes the m-disc, which is made for longterm cold storage. If you check out the wiki for bluray it talks about how some forms use organic methods of writing. Check out Types > Bluray Disc recordable section:
In any case, optical discs are not really "stamped" it is generally burned using a type of laser, and usually on to an organic dye, though that is what the posters your replying to are talking about:
edit: also worth mentioning – my favorite podcast the Accidental Tech Podcast (which, be forewarned is Apple-centric) released an ep not too long ago discussing this. It's part of their post-show on this ep and they use chapter markers, so you can skip basically right to it if you have a half decent podcast player. It's not intended as an explainer video or anything, but having not thought about optical discs in quite a while it does serve as a half decent refresher.
No, optical disks are indeed stamped. You are talking about recordable disks. Which are different thing entirely.
oh, gotcha. I think once someone started talking about m-disc I basically defaulted to thinking about recordable discs.