Sarah Albee: Deadly Dome

From: Sarah Albee
http://www.sarahalbeebooks.com/2012/05/deadly-dome/
May 29, 2012 at 06:00AM

During the early 19^th century construction of the cathedral of St. Isaac in St. Petersburg, Russia, workers gilded the domes with a gold-mercury amalgam. Sixty workers died of mercury poisoning.

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