They were about to proceed to Kurumi's Team's desk when Alyssa from the next table over asked them a question. Vickers listened to Louisa's reply, nodding in places and giving her a small smile. She explained it pretty well. He looked back and forth between the item on their desk and the one on Alyssa's "Yeah well they do look very similar-- that bottom part on ours that we call the Retort can very easily be the same component that is on your desk. Although perhaps as a singular unit it has a slightly different function." he said with a small shrug of a shoulder. Its hard for him to say that definitely their items are the same, with Alyssa's only being a piece of the entire apparatus that sat on the first table. He wasnt familiar with the old school distillers like the one they had that if they were broken down in pieces, might perform separate functions, like what Alyssa's could possibly do.

Now as for the symbols "IF you look at the handouts there are a couple different ways to represent the copper symbol... but yeah they should mean the same thing. As for the distillation symbol, i'm not sure if that can also be applied to your apparatus... maybe yes, maybe not. Have you looked into the handouts and the textbook if there are other symbols that would also be descriptive of what your item can do? As it is it looks like a pot... or a bowl." He looked around at the other tables, spotting a few more that looked bowl-like "Those other items may be made of other materials, but they look very similar to what your item can do." which strictly speaking, is a container.