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Notes:
Dalton’s crude experimental measurements hindered acceptance of his theory.
e. g. oxygen’s weight is wrong because:
his analysis of water was faulty (12.5% H, 87.5% O vs. true values, 11.19% H and 88.81% O)
he chose HO rather than H2O as the formula for water.