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Kirlian in a sentence
Kirlian meaning
Of or pertaining to the Russian inventor Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, and to his process of recording corona discharges from the surface of objects onto photographic plates.
Using Kirlian
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to the Russian inventor Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, and to his process of recording corona discharges from the surface of objects onto photographic plates.
- In the example corpus, kirlian often appears in combinations such as: kirlian photography, kirlian aura, as kirlian.
Context around Kirlian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kirlian
- In this selection, "kirlian" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, felt, citation, research, photography, aura and effect stand out and add context to how "kirlian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a kirlian aura in and called the kirlian effect was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kirlian" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kirlian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The developed film results in a Kirlian photograph of the object. (11 words)
High-voltage electrophotography soon became known to the general public as Kirlian photography. (13 words)
Kirlian photography has been the subject of mainstream scientific research, parapsychology research and art. (14 words)
Photographer Mark D. Roberts, who has worked with Kirlian imagery for over 40 years, published a portfolio of plant images entitled "Vita occulta plantarum" or "The Secret Life of Plants", first exhibited in 2012 at the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis. (40 words)
Some effects thought to be paranormal, for example the effects of Kirlian photography (thought by some to represent a human aura ), disappeared under more stringent controls, leaving those avenues of research at dead-ends. (34 words)
Grounding the object creates a stronger corona discharge. citation Kirlian photography does not require the use of a camera or a lens because it is a contact print process. (29 words)
Example sentences (13)
According to Kerry Gaynor, one of her former research assistants, "many felt Kirlian photography's effects were just a natural occurrence".
As a result, the changing water content of the leaf can affect the so-called Kirlian aura.
Grounding the object creates a stronger corona discharge. citation Kirlian photography does not require the use of a camera or a lens because it is a contact print process.
High-voltage electrophotography soon became known to the general public as Kirlian photography.
Kirlian photography has been the subject of mainstream scientific research, parapsychology research and art.
Kirlian's experiments did not provide evidence for an energy field other than the electric fields produced by chemical processes and the streaming process of coronal discharges.
Photographer Mark D. Roberts, who has worked with Kirlian imagery for over 40 years, published a portfolio of plant images entitled "Vita occulta plantarum" or "The Secret Life of Plants", first exhibited in 2012 at the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis.
Research Kirlian photography has been a subject of scientific research, parapsychology research and pseudoscientific claims.
Scientific study of what the researchers called the Kirlian effect was conducted by Victor Inyushin at Kazakh State University.
Some effects thought to be paranormal, for example the effects of Kirlian photography (thought by some to represent a human aura ), disappeared under more stringent controls, leaving those avenues of research at dead-ends.
The corona discharge glow at the surface of an object subjected to a high-voltage electrical field was referred to as a "Kirlian aura" in Russia and Eastern Europe.
The developed film results in a Kirlian photograph of the object.
The Kirlian effect not only is explainable by natural processes; it also varies according to at least six physical parameters.
Common combinations with kirlian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- kirlian photography 8×
- kirlian aura 2×
- as kirlian 2×
- of kirlian 2×
- the kirlian 2×
- kirlian effect 2×
- in kirlian 2×