The name Fluorite comes from the Latin word for flux, which refers to a substance that promotes flowing and combining of other materials, especially minerals and metals. And in fact the mineral fluorite is used as a flux in making steel and other metals that require the removal of impurities.
The name Colin is of Irish origin. The meaning of Colin is pup or cub. It is also of English and Gaelic origin, where its meaning is whelp, young pup. Colin is generally used as a boy's name. It consists of 5 letters and 2 syllables and is pronounced Co-lin.
Colin is an English-language masculine given name. Colin is usually pronounced /ËkÉlÉªn/ KO-lin, although some use /ËkoÊlÉªn/ KOH-lin. The English name has two distinct origins: A diminutive form of Colle, itself an Old French short form of the name Nicolas. This name, but not the anglicized Gaelic name, is also found in the spelling Collin. This name is formed by the Old French diminutive -in also found in Robin. An anglicized form of the Gaelic name Cuilen, Cailean, modern Irish ...