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Creative project Ultraviolet fluorescence photography

ULTRAVIOLET (UV) fluorescence is the visible light that is emitted from a subject when it is illuminated (the technical term is ‘excited’) by UV in a dark room. Think of the longwave UV lights used in nightclubs, funfair ghost trains and so on that make shirts glow a brilliant white due to the whitener in the fabric.

Many subjects fluoresce in UV, including some minerals (which can be identified by the colour they produce); security markings on banknotes, passports and driving licences; some plant material (including the

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