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A mercury fountain is a fountain using mercury as liquid. The only known existing merury fountain was created by Alexander Calder in 1937 in remembrance to the miners who were killed at the mercury mines at Almadén as memorial. This mercury fountain, which is at the Fundació Miró in Barcelona, is nowadays for safety reasons behind glass.

Mercury fountains existed in some castles in Islamic Spain, the most famous one was at the Kasr-al-Kholaifa at Cordoba.

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