Mullite or
porcelainite is a rare
silicate mineral of post-clay genesis. It can form two stoichiometric forms 3Al
2O
32SiO
2 or 2Al
2O
3 SiO
2. Unusually, mullite has no charge balancing cations present. As a result, there are three different Al sites: two distorted tetrahedral
sites and one
octahedral.