Kirlian photography

Kirlian photography
Kirlian photography [kir′lē ən]
n.
[after S. Kirlian, its Soviet developer (1939)]
a method of capturing on a photographic plate an image of what is thought by some to be an aura of energy that emanates from animals and plants and that undergoes changes in accordance with physiological or emotional changes

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