Hello,
First time posting, hope I'm in the right spot. I work at a chemical plant and I'm trying to analyze some cleanouts for product. The cleanout is in acetone and I'm attempting to just use UV/vis to find the wave length this product reads at. I'm using a Cary 50 UV spectrometer. My problem is when I go to do a full spectrum scan everything from 199nm to 300nm is just noise. Lots of very sharp peaks. I thought I had too strong a solution but diluting it down did nothing. Then I realized that it's the acetone causing this. I baseline with neat acetone, then read that acetone it gives me the same noise and not a flat baseline. Is pure acetone an issue? As a side not, I'm not a chemist, just a lab tech with minimal chemistry knowledge.
Thanks in advance for any help.