1). Tune the spectrophotometer to the desired wavelength.
2). Load a cuvette with the solvent used in your sample
3). Place the cuvette in the spectrophotometer, and close it.
Then tare the spectrophotometer.
4). Once the spectrophotometer is tared, then remove the solvent cuvette, and load a
cuvette with your sample. Record the absorbance value that it gives you.
5). This procedure NEEDS to be repeated at EACH wavelength.
Absorbance is different for EVERY chemical at EVERY wavelength,
so every time you change one of them, the spectrophotometer will need to be tared.