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What is the reference wavelength used for in a plate reader?
When you use a plate reader (for ELISA or some other type of colorimetric assay), you read the plate at 1 wavelength, but you also read it with a 2nd reference wavelength, what is this second reading used for?
I asked this question in Physics a while ago but I received no response.
When I Google it, I can't seem to find the answer.
The reference value is subtracted from each reading to normalize the readings against a nonchanging value. One wavelength reports the change in absorption from enzyme action. The other should remain the same since it is set at a value unrelated to expected absorption values.
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