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turbopause

Noun

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turbopause (plural turbopauses)

(meteorology) The altitude in the Earth's atmosphere below which turbulent mixing dominates, at about 60 miles or 100 km, which separates the heterosphere from the homosphere.

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Above the F1 region, atomic oxygen becomes the dominant constituent because lighter particles tend to occupy higher altitudes above the turbopause (at ~100 km). Source: Internet

Turbulence causes the air within the lower atmospheric regions below the turbopause at about 110 km to be a mixture of gases that does not change its composition. Source: Internet

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