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姜油理化成分（Chemical components of ginger oil） Physical and chemical properties of ginger essential oil Essential oil (EssentialOil) is a class of volatile oily liquids that can be distilled with water vapor and have a certain flavor in plants. Ginger essential oil refers to the volatile oil extracted by steam distillation method from the rhizome of ginger, almost does not contain high boiling components with aromatic aroma, mainly used for flavoring seasoning of food and beverage, but also need to market at home and abroad expensive flavor raw material and medicinal materials. Ginger essential oil is transparent, pale yellow to orange yellow liquid flows, is a complex mixture, its refractive index is 1.4880 - 1.4940 - 28 - 45 - for the optical density of 0.871 - 0.882. The physical parameters of ginger essential oil obtained by steam distillation at different storage stages are approximately the same. But some compounds of ginger essential oil components with chemical instability, such as zingiberen easy polymerization in water vapor distillation, sesquiphellandrene will be converted into aryl curcumin. The ginger oil during storage, some components will change, such as geraniol, geranyl acetate will decrease, nerol, beta geranial will increase, sesquiphellandrene will be converted into aryl curcumin. Ginger alcohol can dehydrate and turn into ginger. Therefore, ginger essential oil long time exposure increases the viscosity in the light and air, the formation of non volatile residue polymerization, reducing the opticity. When the temperature is above 90 degrees, the composition, smell and flavor of ginger essential oil will change. Components of ginger essential oil The first report on the composition of ginger essential oil was made in the late nineteenth Century, because of the difficulty of separating monomers at that time. Prior to 1950s, although a number of semi terpene components were found, no significant progress was made in identifying other compounds in the