Excess molar enthalpies and excess molar volumes as a function of composition for liquid mixtures of xenon+ ethane (at 161.40 K), xenon + propane (at 161.40 K) and xenon +
n-butane (at 182.34 K) have beenobtained by Monte Carlo computer simulations and compared with available experimental data. Simulationconditions were chosen to closely match those of the corresponding experimental results. The TraPPE-UAforce field was selected among other force fields to model all the alkanes studied, whereas the one-centerLennard-
Jones potential from Bohn et al. was used for xenon. The calculated
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