I have a question: what happens when the individual elements of a compound are converted into elements which don't bond with each other?
They mostly break apart and form new compounds with ionic bonds (particles within the oven become strongly negatively charged and particles outside positively charged). Any complex hydrocarbons are liable to break down into a chemical soup.
"non-functional hob" did you mean "non-functional knob"?
Upvoted for the execution and because the title made me laugh. I have a couple of nitpicks, though:
SCP-1477 was recovered from a surburban residence in north Hampshire
Probably should be a little more specific. Just as American writers assume everyone should be familiar with America, this is assuming that an international audience has a level of familiarity with the UK that it probably doesn't.
I also don't particularly care for the Chaos Insurgency note at the end. It doesn't really add anything to an article that stands pretty nicely on its own.
Overall, though, nice work.
Probably should be a little more specific. Just as American writers assume everyone should be familiar with America, this is assuming that an international audience has a level of familiarity with the UK that it probably doesn't.
I know that it's a place in Great Britain somewhere. Do I really need to know more?
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It probably should at the very least say "UK" afterward. There's Hampsteads in other places (including Hampstead, New Hampshire, birthplace of the Hampster Dance).
EDIT: Derp. Hampshire, not Hampstead. Still, there's like five Hampshires in the US. Could cause confusion.
What title? The SCP Series 1000-1999 listing still has ACESS DENIED for this one, and if there's any other way of finding out the title of an SCP I've never heard about it.
The title is (or should be) The Philosopher's Stove.
Wikidot wasn't letting me save the page when I went to bed - other people on the IRC said it wasn't working for them either. It's still giving me an error message - is there anyone I should PM? Or just try again later?
I'd try again when you get a chance. If you still can't, PM one of the wiki mods.
In the sea without lees
Lies the bird of Hermes
Eating his wings variable
And maketh himself yet full stable.
…when I looked that up and saw the reference to the Staff of Hermes here, I thought it was kind of a clever reference.
So, upvoted.
The house in the photo looks North American, or at least like nothing i'd expect to see in Hampshire. A minor nitpick in an otherwise decent entry.
What the hell is "the CI"?
EDIT: Oh wait, it's the Chaos Insurgency. Feels a bit tacked on to an otherwise good article.
Obligatory real science upvote.
Also, I like the thin sheet of lithium (which was presumably paper, which is mainly carbon, getting stepped down twice), although I don't know where the sulfur came from.
The sulphur would have to come from potassium (stepped down by 3, not 2 incidentally), or to have actually been written in a sulphur bearing "ink", possibly sulphur dissolved in a volatile organic solvent, onto the lithium sheet created by transmutation in the oven.
Not bad at all, really. My one question is, what exactly is SCP-1477-1? It's not clearly defined.
It's the regular oven they swapped parts with SCP-1477 to see when the anomalous effects kicked in. Is there any way I can make it clearer?