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Gluing two affine schemes along a different intersection

Given a quasi-projective $X$ variety that is the union of two affines $\text{Spec(A)}$, $\text{Spec(B)}$ with intersection $\text{Spec}(C)$. Let $f\in C$. Then $\text{Spec}(C_f)$ is an open in both of $\text{Spec(A)}$ and $\text{Spec(B)}$. What is the gluing of $\text{Spec(A)}$, $\text{Spec(B)}$ along $\text{Spec}(C_f)$ and its relation to $X$? I can only imagine this object very intuitively and I'm not sure if it is correct or not. It seems to me this is not a separated scheme and it resembles $X$ with double the portion of zeros of $f$ that are in $\text{Spec}(C)$. Specially it seems to me there are two maps from $X$ to this scheme. Is it possibile to make these more clear in case they are true?

Edit: Here are some related questions. Let $\text{Spec}(A)^f$ be the complement of zeros of $f$ that are in $\text{Spec}(C)$. Is it possible to make sense of $\text{Spec}(A)^f$ as a scheme? (explicit description would be ideal). In a way that it admits $\text{Spec}(C_f)$ as an open and gluing $\text{Spec}(A)^f$ and $\text{Spec}(B)$ along $\text{Spec}(C_f)$ is same as gluing $\text{Spec}(A)$ and $\text{Spec}(B)$ along $\text{Spec}(C)$.

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