“…Monotonic variation is shown by those mixtures which present the extreme values of excess molar volume {lower expansive behaviour for increasing composition of acetone in (acetone + 2-butanol) and lower contractive behaviour for increasing composition of acetone in (acetone + methanol), while the binary (methanol + 2-butanol) displays a slight maximum (x ∼ = 0.1)}. This fact points out the tendency that when packing different alcohol (1), (4), and (5), and root-mean-square deviations (12) (SDR), Bradford-Thodos (13) (BT), Riedel (14) (Ri), Narsimhan (15) (N), and Yen-Woods (16) (YW)} and refractive indices {Lorentz-Lorenz (18) (LL), Dale-Gladstone (19) (DG), Arago-Biot (20) (AB), Eykman (21) (E), Newton (22) (Nw), Oster (23) molecules, the disruption of hydrogen bonds between methanol molecules is induced by the introduction of secondary alcohol molecules. Such alteration yields to sudden expansive behaviour at low methanol compositions, which is decreased to moderate positive values towards higher methanol mole fractions.…”