This would lead to some confusion between atomic masses (promoted by proponents of atomic theory) and equivalent weights (promoted by its opponents and which sometimes differed from relative atomic masses by an integer factor), which would last throughout much of the nineteenth century.
Hal ini akan menyebabkan kebingungan antara massa atom (dipromosikan oleh para pendukung teori atom) dan berat ekuivalen (dipromosikan oleh lawan-lawannya dan kadang-kadang berbeda dari massa atom relatif berdasarkan faktor bilangan bulat), yang terus berlangsung sepanjang abad kesembilan belas.