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Unbalanced scales

Gold unbalanced scales on brown background.

The unbalanced scales represent the positive and negative effects of UV – without indicating which side outweighs the other.

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Rights: Anatasiya Maksimenko
Published: 29 July 2008Size: 30.41 KB
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