Sighing, he went to work and made the compound within an hour. He then sent it as well, but got an idea. The metallic compound, wait. The nanites. If he made nanites with the metallic compound that could comprise his armor, then he would have an even better advantage. So that is what he did, making nanites out of the metallic compound and then replicating them until there was enough. Nanites that would form around him into an armored suit of sorts when activated with a button on his belt. An ingenoius idea.
And once he had finished that, he sent in a metallic compound sample, but not something of the spare project that he had done at the moment in time.