Somastic
(səˈmæstɪk)
Also somastic.
[Prob. f. initials of Standard Oil (see quot. 1930) + mastic n.]
A proprietary term in the U.S. for asphalt-based materials used in coating oil pipelines.
| 1930 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 8 July 365/1 Standard Oil Company of California... Somastic. For asphalt, asphalt mastic, and pipe coatings. Claims use since May 8, 1930. 1974 Petroleum Rev. XXVIII. 634/1 A 40-ft long pipe..emerges from a somastic coating machine at Bredero Price's mill in Leith. 1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 131/1 Field joints in the overbend are coated with flexible somastic. |