Min. [Named in honor of A. G. Werner the German mineralogist: see -ITE.] Silicate of aluminium and calcium, the most important member of the scapolite group.
1811. Pinkerton, Petral., I. 205. Wernerite is generally reddish.
1823. H. J. Brooke, Crystallogr., 489. Scapolite … Wernerite.
1851. Mantell, Petrifactions, iv. § 1. 364. Felspathic substances. Triphane;… Wernerite.
