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During the Victorian Era the home began to be seen as a safe haven from the world. Unfortunately for the Victorians, many of the comfort items with which they filled their homes, turned it into a death trap.
SOURCES:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/scheeles-green-the-color-of-fake-foliage-and-death/
https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/the-green-that-poisoned-britain
https://genteelandbard.com/southern-history-haunts-folklore-journal/2022/8/10/feeling-green
https://www.robertopoetichimica.it/en/the-story-of-the-green-scheele-pigment-by-swedish-chemist-carl-scheele-2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele's_Green
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