Excess molar volumes, V
m
E, of six binary mixtures of ethanoic
acid and propanoic acid with butan-2-ol, methyl-2-propanol, and 2-methyl-butan-2-ol
were obtained from density measurements over the entire range of compositions
at T = (293.15 to 333.15) K. A sigmoidal behavior
was observed for the V
m
E values of ethanoic acid with butan-2-ol
and 2-methyl-butan-2-ol, and negative V
m
E values were obtained
for the binary mixture of ethanoic acid with methyl-2-propanol at T = (293.15 to 303.15 or 313.15) K. But the effect of the
rising temperature is not the same for these mixtures. For the mixtures
containing propanoic acid with alcohols the V
m
E values were negative
and become more negative with increasing temperature over the entire
range of compositions and temperatures except for the mixture of propanoic
acid with methyl-2-propanol. Totally unregulated behavior was observed
by a mixture of carboxylic acids with alcohols at different temperatures.