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S Abdalla1, Y Al-Hadeethi

  • 1Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia. smabdullah@kau.edu.sa

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