SCP-797 - "Hydrophobic String"

Item #: SCP-797

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: All samples of SCP-797 are to be kept in a safe made of titanium. Access is to be restricted to testers only on threat of termination. No strands or items made of SCP-797 are to leave the testing area.

Description: SCP-797 is some form of string that spontaneously appears near [DATA EXPUNGED], presumably through the dimensional fluxes near the area. Aside from this, it displays no other paranormal qualities, although it has several unusual properties replicable only by extensive materials synthesis at the present time.

Each strand of SCP-797 has been either one of two colours, red or black. However, items woven of it have been observed to be black, green, red, brown, copper or gold, depending on the viewer. Such items are also extremely durable, withstanding temperatures upwards of 7000 C and pressures of 400 atmospheres.

Its most notable quality, however, is its repulsion of all liquids. Whether as single strands or woven together, all samples of SCP-797 repel any type of liquid with a 0% absorption rate. When immersed in a liquid, results showed that SCP-797 forms a layer of vacuum around itself, preventing it from coming into contact with the liquid. Upon testing, a sheet of SCP-797 was 300% more effective than a HAZMAT suit at resisting low pH acids, toxic spillage, and even gas attacks by repelling the mist particles in the air. Experiments to determine the cause of this property were inconclusive.

Mass spectroscopy revealed high quantities of yttrium present (47% mass), unknown substances (27%) and complex double-helix structures, resembling terrestrial DNA but with different elements, carbon and phosphorous being replaced by germanium and arsenic. Such a structure is unlikely to arise by chance, suggesting that the origin of SCP-797 may be from other lifeforms.

Stock: Four thousand, seven hundred and sixty-one (4761) strands of loose SCP-797, one (1) 8x8x8cm cube, one (1) 5cm diameter sphere, one (1) 20x80 cm sheet.

Addendum 797-a: Dr. ██████ has requested that SCP-797 be raised to Euclid status, after finding that a solid steel plate was cut in half when one strand of SCP-797 was slid across it. Further testing showed SCP-797 capable of cutting through titanium, diamond, vanadium and a range of other materials, simultaneously casting doubt on the safety of a HAZMAT suit constructed out of SCP-797.