Mercury fountain
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This article is about fountains using liquid metallic mercury. For the bronze Mercury Fountain at Oxford University, see Tom Quad. For the stone statue in Mexico, see Fountain of Mercury.
A mercury fountain is a fountain constructed for use with liquid metallic mercury ("quicksilver") rather than water.
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Mercury fountains existed in some castles in Islamic Spain; the most famous one was located at the Kasr-al-Kholaifa in Córdoba.[citation needed]