Mull, Island

Mullite. Although mullitc is found in nature, for example, as inclusions in lava deposits on the island of Mull, Scotland, no commercial natural deposits are known. It is made by burning pure sillimanite minerals or sillimamte-alnmina mixtures,... 

Mullite only rarely occurs in nature and derives its name from the island Mull in Scotland. The mineral has a low expansion co-... 

Mullite is a solid solution phase of alumina and silica commonly found in ceramics. Only rarely does mullite occur as a natural mineral. According to introductory remarks made by Schneider and MacKenzie at the conference Mullite 2000 [1], the geologists Anderson, Wilson, and Tait of the Scottish Branch of His Majesty s Geological Survey discovered the mineral mullite less than a century ago. The trio was collecting mineral specimens from ancient lava flows on the island of Mull off the west coast of Scotland when they chanced upon the first known natural deposit of this ceramic material. The specimens were initially identified as sillimanite, but later classified as mullite. 

In 1784, some French Freemasons wrote to their English brethren enquiring whether the Hebredian island, where the Culdees practised their rites, was the same as the Island of Mull where Pierre d Aumont and seven other Knights Templar had landed. They asked It concerns us to know if there really exists in the island of Mull, formerly Melrose. .. in the North of Scotland, a Mount Heredom, or if it does not exist. In reply General Rainsford, referred them to the words Har Adonai, which means the Mount of God. " The Mount of God is a place of ritual testing. 

Pierre d Aumont and seven other Knights Templar, disguised as woking masons, landed on the Island of Mull They held their first chapter on St. John s Day, 1307. Robert Bruce then took them under his protection. On St. John s Summer Day, 24 June 1314, they fought with Bruce at Bannockburn against Edward II. 

FIGURE 4.2 Leaf arrangement in Cyathophorum bulbosum (Hedw.) MUll. Hal. (ventral view). Epiphytic plant from densely shaded, living roots of a tree near a streamlet in remnant of native forest, White Pine Bush, Hawke s Bay, North Island, New Zealand Van Zanten 73.12.68, GRO). (Photograph courtesy and by permission... 

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