Min. [Named after Cancrin, a Russian statesman: see -ITE.] A massive mineral found at Minsk in the Urals, a silico-carbonate of aluminium and sodium.
1844. in Dana, Min.
1850. Daubeny, Atom. The., xii. (ed. 2), 413. Silicates…. With Carbonates. Example: Cancrinite.
1879. Rutley, Study Rocks, x. 108. Cancrinite is probably an altered condition of nepheline.
