Table 3.
Melting and crystallization characteristics of differently extracted mahua oil.
| Method | Melting property |
Crystallization property |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onset T | Peak T | Offset T | Onset T | Peak T | Offset T | |
| UAE | −18.23 ± 0.01a | −3.96 ± 0.01a | 35.68 ± 0.01b | 15.90 ± 0.01b | 12.99 ± 0.01b | −38.05 ± 1.01b |
| SXE | −17.87 ± 0.01b | −3.08 ± 0.07b | 37.29 ± 0.01a | 18.82 ± 0.08a | 17.17 ± 0.01a | −37.56 ± 0.72c |
| ME | −18.44 ± 0.01a | −3.39 ± 0.03a | 28.30 ± 0.04c | 13.27 ± 0.02c | 12.46 ± 0.03c | −38.53 ± 0.31a |
Mean ± SD; n = 2 Means represented by different letters in the same column demonstrate significant difference (p < 0.05) according to Tukey test. T; temperature (°C).