Making Silicon Tetrachloride (reacts with water to make sand!)

In this video we make some fun SiCl4 from silicon metal and chlorine!

I ideally would have used all glass joints and adapters but I didn't have the supplies to be able to do that. It was suggested by blogfast25 on ScienceMadness that maybe the red stuff was a reaction of the chlorine with the rubber adapters.

TheChemistryShack: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChemistryShack ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU77anzCzxg