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Definition: CANCRINITE

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Cancrinite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Note: Cancrinite \Can"cri*nite\, noun. [Named after Count Cancrin, minister of finance in Russia.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: CANCRINITE

Domain Definition
Mining A. A hexagonal mineral, Na6 Ca2 Al6 Si6 O (sub 24)(CO3)2.b. The mineral group afghanite, cancrinite, davyne, franzinite, guiseppettite, liottite, microsommite, sacrofanite, vishnevite, and wenkite(?). (references)
Wikipedic Cancrinite is a mineral, a complex carbonate and silicate of sodium, calcium and aluminum; formula Na6Ca2[(CO3,Al6Si6O24].2H2O. Found originally in 1839 in the Ural Mountains, it is named after Count Kankrin, a Russian minister of finance. (references)

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Extended Definition: CANCRINITE

Cancrinite

Cancrinite
Cancrinite

Cancrinite is a complex carbonate and silicate of sodium, calcium and aluminium with the formula Na6Ca2[(CO3,Al6Si6O24]·2H2O. It is classed as a member of the feldspathoid group of minerals; the alkali feldspars that are poor in silica. Yellow, orange, pink, white or even blue, it has a vitreous or pearly lustre; a hardness of 5-6 and an uneven conchoidal fracture. It is unusual among the silicate minerals in that it will effervesce with hydrochloric acid due to the associated carbonate ions.

Found originally in 1839 in the Ural Mountains, it is named after Georg von Cancrin, a Russian minister of finance.

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Translations: CANCRINITE

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Scots Gaelic caincrinit (cancrinite). Additional references: Scots Gaelic, United Kingdom, cancrinite. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: CANCRINITE

Language Translations for “cancrinite” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin ancrinitecay (cancrinite). Additional references: Pig Latin, cancrinite. (volunteer)
Terran B caincinit (cancrinite). Additional references: Terran B, cancrinite. (volunteer)
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