AbsurdityIncarnate- A Chemist’s Worst Nightmare

SCP XXXX is a wooden box made out of what is believed to be varnished ebony wood, with an white engraving of the complete periodic table on the lid. Inside the box is a series of vials arranged in the shape of the periodic table, every vial has the corresponding element’s symbol for its given location and a sample of the element inside. Each vial is held securely in a small cutout area of white foam. The box and vials have no anomalous properties whatsoever unless the element sample they hold has been removed. Upon removal the sample, putting the vial in its corresponding place, and closing the lid, the sample will be replenished. However upon doing so the removed sample or any compounds formed with said sample with quickly decay into an unknown black gelatinous mixture. If this process is not completed the removed element sample or any compounds formed with the sample will remain. This makes extensive studying of each element a long and tedious process when studying their rather bizarre chemistry and properties. Such properties tend to be complete opposites of their normal counterparts, for instance elements such as helium and neon, which normally never react are in some cases extremely reactive. Elements such as chlorine or fluorine which are normally very reactive gases can in some cases be solids and rather unreactive. These practically inverted properties are typically limited to only two or three properties however there are times when more than seven properties may be different per each individual instance of the sample. It should also be noted that when a new instance of a sample reappears in a vial chances are these once anomalous properties are no longer anomalous and other properties are. A list of potential properties that may be affected have been compiled, they are as follows: melting point, boiling point, oxidation state, electronegativity, conductivity, density, state at room temperature, hardness, crystal structure, emission spectrum, instablity (radioactivity), and half life of any radioactive element. Properties such as color and luster tend to be the same as the typical corresponding element in the same phase, anomalous helium that is liquid at room temperature, appears the same as typical helium when cooled to the point of being liquid would.