Oleum
Oleum or the plural olea is used in different meanings:
- Oleum (Latin for oil ) as in petroleum
- in pharmacy and medicine for oil (abbr .: Ol. from Latin oleum ), see oils
- in chemistry for fuming sulfuric acid (concentrated sulfuric acid H 2 SO 4 with e.g. 24, 34 or 65% by weight of dissolved sulfur trioxide SO 3 )
- in chemistry partly for disulfuric acid
- in botany for the genus of olive trees ( Olea )
- In the petrochemical industry, Olea Mineralölwerke AG was the founding name of what later became Deutsche Gasolin AG, see Gasolin (petrol station chain)
Olea is called
- Pedro Olea (* 1938), Spanish director