Item #: SCP-XXX
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Access surrounding SCP-XXX surrounding area is restricted under the guise of its designation as a native sacred area.
SCP-XXX samples are to be preserved and transported only with use of level 2 Sahara water-control protocols. Samples can only be put into contact with water-based fluids under experimental conditions, and the maximum surface that can be allowed in contact during such experiments cannot exceed 900 cm2. Grinding should be avoided. Experiments with any fluid that has dangerous properties, such as acids, requires the approval of a level 2 or higher personnel. Samples are to be disposed by melting them in a blast furnace.
Description: SCP-XXX is an anomalous rocky substance found primarily at Mount ████████████, in the Torngat Mountains of extreme north Labrador. SCP-XXX mimics metamorphic rock and constitutes a large igneous formation of unknown (but seemingly nonanomalous) origin. Chemical analysis of SCP-XXX shows no anomalous properties. Although SCP-XXX is exposed to open air mostly at Mount ████████████, it is unclear generally how deep it runs and whether there may be other outcrops elsewhere. Exploration is ongoing to verify this.
SCP-XXX's anomalous nature surfaces when it is put into contact with certain amounts of water-based fluids. When such contact occurs in the trigger conditions, explosions occur via a process that remains to be explained. However, the violence of the explosion varies not with the amount of water and SCP-XXX involved, but rather with the amount of surface of SCP-XXX samples that are exposed to water.
Rough surfaces have proven greatly more efficient at catalysis the abnormal reaction, indicating that it may involve physical processes under similar conditions to a Diet Coke/Mentos mix. Generally, the relation between exposed surface and the violence of the explosion is not arithmetic, but logarithmic. They appear to be further compounded by the presence in close proximity of multiple chunks of SCP-XXX exposed to the same water.
Only fairly clean water in direct contact with SCP-XXX will detonate: wrapping the substance in thick fabric or covering it with soil (even if there are later waterlogged) is sufficient to interfere with the process. Fluids such as acids and saltwater will also detonate. A ratio of ca. 95:5 between water molecules and other substances appear to be the maximum concentration of foreign contaminants allowed before explosions are prevented.
The area where SCP-XXX is located is generally small and arid, but preventing explosions caused by natural elements (i.e. rainfall) is rendered extremely difficult by its remote location and the size of the area involved. As such containment is focused on preventing human presence or dissemination of samples that may become separated from the main mass during explosive events.
Sample: A brick-sized, unpolished block
Test 1: Water is dripped down on the surface.
Result: No effect.
Test 2: Water is sprayed in a fine mist over the sample.
Result: No effect.
There seems to be a need for the amount of water to for a continuous mass rather than a film.
Test 7: Sample is suspended in mid air by string and water is spurted at it with a standard garden hose.
Result: No effect.
Overly rapid movement preventing explosions?
Test 15: A mechanical rig lowers a rounded end of the sample into a bucket of water.
Result: A violent detonation destroys the bucket, damages the rig and propels the sample out of the water.
Note: Explosion was compared to that of alkali metal in water or an M80 firecracker.
Experiment log XXX-06:
Sample: A highly polished sphere 50cm in diameter.
Test 1: The Sphere is dropped into a pool of water five meter deep. Monitoring is done via broad-spectrum cameras.
Result: For the first 30 seconds, the sphere is surrounded by small, but increasingly powerful explosions, giving it the appearance of a large piece of alkaline substance dropped in an acid. As the surface sustains increasing damage and small chunks break off, the water becomes increasingly agitated until a particularly violent explosions destroys the room and several adjacent test rooms, taking out most recording sensors and injuring several foundation personnel to various degrees. There was no time to hit the panic button that would have drained the pool. The sample was reduced to a large amount of gravel-sized rubble who continued generating firecracker-like or larger explosions explosions until they could be removed from water that flooded part of the rubble. Where several of them were in close proximity, the detonation were closer to those of grenades, creating even more fragments.
Later analysis indicated that as the violence of the explosions increased along with the pitting and roughening of the sample's surface, a crack appeared that eventually split the boulder in two and instantaeously more than doubled the amount of exposed surface, resulting in an explosion equivalent to at least ██ kilograms of TNT.
Addendum A
Investigation is ongoing to determine whether the ██/██/19██ unexplained explosion that destroyed [DATA EXPUNGED] may be related to the loss three days prior of a relatively large amount of SCP-XXX during transportation to Site ██ for testing. Investigation has indicated that the attack on the convoy may have been organized by the Church of the Broken God.
Item #: SCP-XXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-xxx is kept in a gyroscopic containment locker to prevent it from tipping. A plug is additionally locked to its spout, the key to which is stored separately. This plug is to be removed only during experimentation authorized by level 3 or higher personnel.
SCP-xxx-02 is to be manipulated only in controlled environment where air has been filtered through an HEPA filter of class U or higher, and all solid surface should be coated with polytetrafluoroethylene or compounds of comparably low reactivity.
Description: SCP-xxx is a bright orange plastic teapot from a standard toy set issued by ██████ from 19██ to 19██. Althouh SCP-xxx is capable of being filled and emptied normally through pouring fluids out of its spout, all fluids that exit it in such a fashion are replaced by a different, anomalous liquid, SCP-xxx-02. It is not clear whether SCP-XXX simply alters its contents at they are poured—amounts inside it change accordingly—or actually exchanges it for a different fluid, with the original content being transferred to an undetermined location. Additionally, SCP-xxx-02 produces [DATA EXPUNGED] if tipped while empty.
SCP-xxx-02 has the appearance of a transparent fluid visually similar to water. However, none of its physical properties that have been tested so far, from its surface tension to its refractory index, actually match that of water, nor do they match those of any known natural or artificial substance. Although not volatile per se, SCp-xxx-02 interact violently either corrosively or explosively with most substances (including microparticles present in the atmosphere) other than ambient air and the constituent plastic of SCP-xxx. The plastic in question has not displayed any other anomalous properties.
Extensive analysis of SCP-xxx-02 indicates that it is formed of normal hydrogen and oxygen atoms connected into an anomalous compound of formula O2H. Traces or other compounds are found dissolved in SCP-xxx-02, most noticeably a more or less constant level of Cl3. It is hypothesized that SCP-xxx-02 may be intended as "regular" tap water, with the anomalous chlorine compound performing similar disinfection as O3 and/or Cl2 in normal water treatment. It remains a mystery how SCP-XX-02 is capable of maintaining its anomalous molecular structure and exist in a universe where the laws of physics make it impossible.
Once SCP-XX-02 has been decomposed (be it through its interaction with nonanomalous compounds or radio-/electrolysis), its component atoms prove to be completely normal, and it is impossible to recreate the substance, whether from these same atoms or through any process starting from atoms who have never been part of it.
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