A student prepared a sample of silicon chloride by passing chlorine over heated silicon and collecting the condensed silicon chloride in a small specimen tube. He analsed the chloride by dissolving a known mass of it in water and titrating the solution with standard silver nitrates solution. The formula of the silicon chloride as obtained by this method was SiCl_(2.6) as aganist a true formula SiCl_(4). Which of the following possible errors could have resulted in this wrong formula?

A student prepared a sample of silicon chloride by passing chlorine ov

1.	A student prepared a sample of silicon chloride by passing chlorine over heated silicon and collecting the condensed silicon chloride in a small specimen tube. He analsed the chloride by dissolving a known mass of it in water and titrating the solution with standard silver nitrates solution. The formula of the silicon chloride as obtained by this method was SiCl_(2.6) as aganist a true formula SiCl_(4). Which of the following possible errors could have resulted in this wrong formula?
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