wernerite
mineral
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Wernerite is a mineral that belongs to the scapolite group. Scapolites are found in calcium-rich metamorphic rocks. Wernerite was previously used as a group name for minerals with an intermediate composition between two theoretical end-members: marialite (a sodium aluminosilicate) and meionite (a calcium aluminosilicate). These minerals form a solid-solution series where sodium and calcium atoms can substitute for each other within the molecular structure.1
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