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Line 1: The '''turbopause''' marks the altitude in the [[Earth's atmosphere]] below which [[turbulence\|turbulent mixing]] dominates. The region below the turbopause is known as the [[homosphere]], where the chemical constituents are well mixed and display identical height distributions; in other words, the chemical composition of the ~~atmpsphere~~atmosphere remains constant in this region. The region above the turbopause is the [[heterosphere]], where [[diffusion\|molecular diffusion]] dominates and the chemical composition of the atmosphere varies according to chemical species. The turbopause lies near the [[mesopause]], at the intersection of the [[mesosphere]] and the [[thermosphere]], at an altitude of roughly 100 km.

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