T'Challa had not held out much hope of discovering the formula for a Vibranium alloy. Wakanda's Royal Research Institute had already conducted extensive research to unravel Vibranium's mysteries, including developing Vibranium alloys.
Wakanda's technology had once far surpassed that of other nations. They had been somewhat proud, believing that if they could not figure something out, no one else could either.
This was T'Challa's first time seeing an actual Vibranium alloy, and one with perfect defensive properties at that. Its only flaw was the lack of a formula, making it impossible to reproduce.
If they relied on deduction, the materials that might have appeared on the workbench had most likely already been tested by Wakandan scientists. All T'Challa could do was tell the Royal Research Institute's scientists the news and let them try their best.
But if there truly was a material on that workbench that Wakandan scientists had never tried before, it might well have been the meteorite attached to the raw Vibranium ore.
Wakanda had possessed and forged Vibranium for a very long time. They had Vibranium in all kinds of forms, but scarcely any scientists had studied the raw ore.
On one hand, raw ore contained too many impurities and was nearly unusable for forging. On the other, the royal family was deeply angered by Vibranium being smuggled out, so they strictly controlled the destination of all Vibranium. The materials the Royal Research Institute received all bore special research serial numbers and, for traceability, came from dedicated production lines at smelters.
Just as scientists in other countries would not toss raw iron ore directly into an alloy while making it, Wakandan scientists had never considered synthesizing Vibranium together with the meteorite attached to it.
But as Bruce had said, since Vibranium would definitely have appeared on the