While some shrimpers are eager to get back out, many are still working for BP, which has hired boats to skim oil off the surface and lay protective booms along the shorelines.

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It will then be returned to its original golden brown colour and waxed so it has a protective weatherproof surface.

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Much of the work will be done by hand and will include the removal of the remnants of the protective lacquer and surface dirt.

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The magic, it turns out, is in that subatomic spray, as the group treated with an electron shower benefited from a polymerizing effect or, more plainly, a bonding of molecules just above the skin's surface that yielded a tough, protective nano-layer measuring between 50- to 100-billionths of a meter thick.

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