Compound Characteristics Sample type Acrylamide 2-Chloroacetamide Volume of unit cell (10-23 cm3) Control 423.4 392.13 Treated 424.09 384.61 Crystallite Size ‘G’ x 10-9m Control 69.31 47.26 Treated 46.20 108.60 Molecular Weight (g/mol) Control 72.93 94.77 Treated 73.05 92.95

Table 1: XRD data (volume of unit cell, crystallite size and molecular weight) of acrylamide (AM) and 2-chloroacetamide (CA).