“…500 μl of 9 Be carrier (Be concentration of 982 μg/g) was added to the purified quartz grains, and the sample was dissolved by sequential treatment with concentrated HF/HNO 3 solution and aqua regia. Finally, the sample was dissolved in 6N HCl and was processed with a two‐step column chromatography procedure to isolate beryllium from other ions (Jena et al., 2021, Jena, Bhushan, Ajay, et al., 2022; Jena, Bhushan, Ajay, Dabhi, et al., 2023). Beryllium (in the form of Be(OH) 2 ) was precipitated at a higher pH, and the precipitate was heated at 650°C for 6 hr in order to convert it into beryllium oxide (BeO).…”