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Consumer Reports' experts break down how to use clear or semi-transparent wood stains for your decking projects. Achieve the look you want for your deck with our advice.

Transparent is not usually one of them, but researchers have now developed a method to make semi-transparent wood a reality, and it could have interesting applications in the future.

Probably not -- unless you've heard of transparent wood. Made by modifying wood's natural structure, this material has been proposed as a sturdy, eco-friendly alternative for plastic.

But one thing they haven’t been doing is pursuing semi-transparent or nontransparent structures – something that a few years ago was seen as the next big thing for ETFs. Instead, managers are ...

The use of custom baskets for active semi-transparent ETFs has the potential to reduce trading costs, increase efficiency, and improve secondary markets for the shares.” ...

Transparent wood, made by modifying wood’s natural structure, has been proposed as a sturdy, eco-friendly plastic alternative. But wood’s biodegradability is often sacrificed in the process.