oleum
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of oleum
1900–05; < Latin: oil
Example Sentences
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Both methyl chloride, which can be used to make rubber, and oleum, a type of sulfuric acid, were accidentally released into the atmosphere.
From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2011
Greek-fire was the precursor of gunpowder; it was the oleum incendiarum of the Romans.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
Explosives demanded oleum, nitric acid, and nitrating plants, which already existed, standardised, in the factories of the dye combine.
From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor
With this mixture, he touched the ulcers several times a day; and then washed them with a liniment of acetate of lead, aqua plantaginis, and oleum rosaceum.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
Many of the above symptoms are relieved by musk, castor, the fœtid gums, valerian, oleum animale, oil of amber, which act in the usual dose without heating the body.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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