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We use the published photometry and spectroscopy of 22 galaxies in theHerschel Reference Survey to determine that the value of the dust massabsorption coefficient $\kappa_{d}$ at a wavelength of 500 $\mu m$ is$\kappa_{500} = 0.051^{+0.070}_{-0.026}\,{\rm m^{2}\,kg^{-1}}$. We do so bytaking advantage of the fact that the dust-to-metals ratio in the interstellarmedium of galaxies appears to be constant. We argue that our value for$\kappa_{d}$ supersedes that of James et al. (2002) -- who pioneered thisapproach for determining $\kappa_{d}$ -- because we take advantage of superiordata, and account for a number of significant systematic effects that they didnot consider. We comprehensively incorporate all methodological andobservational contributions to establish the uncertainty on our value, whichrepresents a marked improvement on the oft-quoted 'order-of-magnitude'uncertainty on $\kappa_{d}$. We find no evidence that the value of $\kappa_{d}$differs significantly between galaxies, or that it correlates with any othermeasured or derived galaxy properties. We note, however, that the availabilityof data limits our sample to relatively massive($10^{9.7}<{M_{\star}}<10^{11.0}\ {\rm M_{\odot}}$), high metallicity($8.61<[12+{\rm log}_{10}\frac{O}{H}]<8.86$) galaxies; future work will allowus to investigate a wider range of systems.

An Empirical Determination of the Dust Mass Absorption Coefficient, $\kappa_{d}$, Using the Herschel Reference Survey