In atmospheric chemistry, mixing ratio usually refers to the mole ratio, which is defined as the amount of a constituent divided by the total amount of all other constituents in a mixture:
The mole ratio is also called amount ratio.
If is much smaller than (which is the case for atmospheric trace constituents), the mole ratio is almost identical to the mole fraction.
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