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Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD, is Lab and Academic Coordinator in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. Nakibul Hasan Khan is a Lecturer in Environmental Science and Engineering at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University in Bangladesh.