Sterling Silver

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Just curious if anyone knows about this..

Silver has s similar property to copper as to knocking off sulfur compounds. Would there be a problem using sterling as a bowl top for a pot still?

I ask because its an alloy of silver and copper, and I don't know its properties in this sort of application. Also because there are a lot of sterling punch bowls out there that are pretty much guaranteed to be sans lead, or anything else that might be in an old piece of copper.