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Put down the paintbrush. Today’s wood treatments dare to be bare.

Although lumber ... wood with added iron. Led by Asst. Prof. Vivian Merk, a team of researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) started out with cubes of untreated red oak hardwood.