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Kirlian photography
[ keer-lee-uhn ]
noun
- a photographic process that supposedly records electrical discharges naturally emanating from living objects, producing an auralike glow surrounding the object on a photographic plate or film with which the object is in direct contact.
Kirlian photography
/ ˈkɜːlɪən /
noun
- a process that is said to record directly on photographic film the field radiation of electricity emitted by an object to which an electric charge has been applied
Word History and Origins
Origin of Kirlian photography1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Kirlian photography1
Example Sentences
According to the Times, she and Lowe plan to use techniques associated with Kirlian photography, or electrophotography, in which images are produced by a high-voltage power source.
What results is something like a chamber-music equivalent of Kirlian photography: dark, shadowy and indistinct at its core, surrounded by an iridescent glow.
Some psychics claim that in time the aura of a missing limb might be discernible with Kirlian photography.
For Moss, the message is that Kirlian photography clearly demonstrates a human aura.
Many psychics and their followers believe that paranormal powers may be dependent on mysterious auras or "energy flows," phenomena that they say can be recorded by Kirlian photography.
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