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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a standard security item storage locker. I'll find more stuff to add here.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an antique blowtorch of unknown make and model. It has no visible characteristics of special interest. Its anomalous effect manifests when lit and used to weld, bind or separate pieces of weldable material, where they will become bound regardless of distance between them.

The contact point of the flame will show patterns similar to normal welding. However, if the objects are pulled away from each other while the welded areas are still cooling, the objects will separate, but become harder and harder to pull apart depending on how much it has cooled, similar to trying to separate objects bound by hot glue. When fully cooled, the objects will be attached, regardless of any space between them.

Testing Log:

Test 1:

Object 1: Stainless steel waterbottle

Object 2: Metal chair

Procedure: Objects were welded together, pulled apart 3 meters, and allowed to cool.

Result: Objects were bound, and moved relative to each other. Moving the chair would move the water bottle as if they were attached by an invisible bar.

Test 2:

Object 1: Block of steel.

Object 2: Iron chain.

Procedure: One of the chain links and the block of steel were welded together, separated by 5 meters, and allowed to cool (being careful to only heat one of the many chain links).

Result: Steel block and chain link that was welded were attached, and the rest of the links hung from it and behaved normally.

Test 3:

Object 1: 16 fl. oz. of elemental mercury

Object 2: None

Procedure: Torch end of SCP-XXXX was pointed at the center of bowl of liquid mercury from above for 10 seconds.

Result: After allowed to cool, the result was a blob of mercury that was about half of the volume of what was still liquid, even though the flame only made contact with a small area of the surface.

Conclusion: The prevailing theory is that the heat given off by SCP-XXXX is what determines what is bound together, and in this scenario as the heat dispersed from the center to the surrounding area, the effect spread.

Test 4:

Object 1: Stainless steel waterbottle

Object 2: Metal chair

Procedure: The objects were both heated independently, but at the same time. The torch was applied to the chair, and when sufficiently hot, was immediately used to heat the waterbottle.

Result: Objects were not bound.

Conclusion: The mechanism to bind objects seems to be heat traveling between both items before dispersing.