Propane

Propane (C₃H₈). The NERD parameters are:

Molecule	$\sigma _{\mathrm {CH} _{3}}$	$\sigma _{\mathrm {CH} _{2}}$	$\epsilon _{\mathrm {CH} _{3}}$	$\epsilon _{\mathrm {CH} _{2}}$
propane	3.857 $\mathrm {\AA}$	3.93 $\mathrm {\AA}$	102.6 K	45.8 K

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Propane

References

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4. Carlos Vega and Santiago Lago "Molecular dynamics study of propane using two simple potential models", Journal of Chemical Physics 93 pp. 8171-8179 (1990)
5. W.-N. Shen and P. A. Monson "Solid-fluid equilibrium in a nonlinear hard sphere triatomic model of propane", Journal of Chemical Physics 103 pp. 9756-9762 (1995)