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The paper reports the solid-liquid phase equilibria (SLE), excess molar volume (VE), and molar refraction deviation (ΔR) for binary systems of ethanoic acid with the C3 to C5 carboxylic acids, propanoic, butanoic, and pentanoic acid, which are the main constituents of bio-butanol fermentation broth. The SLE was determined via a synthetic method using a custom-built glass tube at atmospheric pressure, whereas the thermodynamic mixture properties, VE and ΔR were obtained from directly measured density and refractive index using a precision densitometer and refractometer, respectively. All of the SLE that were determined for binary mixtures of ethanoic acid+C3-C5 carboxylic acids showed a single eutectic point and regressed well with the NRTL activity model within 0.6 K of RMSD. The VE values for the same binaries were positive for the entire composition ranges of all the systems, whereas the ΔR values were negative for all the systems. The VE and ΔR were well regressed by polynomial equations, namely Redlich-Kister within 0.006 cm3·mol−1 of the standard deviation for VE and 0.02 cm3·mol−1 for ΔR.