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 and Scottish variant of the name Cailean (Gaelic and Scottish). Colin is also an English, French, and Scottish contraction of the name Nicholas (English and French). The name Colette (English and French) is the female equivalent of Colin. Colin has 26 variants that are used in English and other languages.