Various studies of thermal turbulence in thin shear flows are re-examined in order to evaluate the ratio of the time scale of the scalar-fluctuation field to that of the velocity-fluctuation field. In all cases considered it is found that the ratio is nearly uniform with a value close to 0.5.
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