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.
[ 3 syll. tif-fa-ny, ti-ff-any ] The baby girl name Tiffany is pronounced as TIYF-aa-Niy- â . Tiffany is of Old Greek origin. It is used mainly in English and German. The meaning of Tiffany is 'manifestation of god'. It is a biblical name from theos which means 'god' ; phainein 'to show, to appear'. The name is derived via Tifaine (Old French) from Theophania (Old Greek).