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1 Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria

2 Department of Petroleum Engineering, Federal polytechnic of Oil and Gas, Bonny, Rivers State, Nigeria

3 Department of Integrated Science, Kogi State College of Education, Ankpa, Kogi State, Nigeria

4 Department of Pure Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa

5 School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, China

6 Federal University Lokoja, Department of Chemistry, Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria

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