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CH₃NH₃PbI_3‐xCl_x is a commonly used chemical formula to represent the methylammonium lead halide perovskite fabricated from mixed chlorine‐ and iodine‐containing salt precursors. Despite the rapid progress in improving its photovoltaic efficiency, fundamental questions remain regarding the atomic ratio of Cl in the perovskite as well as the reaction mechanism that leads to its formation and crystallization. In this work we investigated these questions through a combination of chemical, morphological, structural and thermal characterizations. The elemental analyses reveal unambiguously the negligible amount of Cl atoms in the CH₃NH₃PbI_3‐xCl_x perovskite. By studying the thermal characteristics of methylammonium halides as well as the annealing process in a polymer/perovskite/FTO glass structure, we show that the formation of the CH₃NH₃PbI_3‐xCl_x perovskite is likely driven by release of gaseous CH₃ …