What happens to air in space after evacuates from a space craft?

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When air evacuates from a space craft, what happens to the air/oxygen?
It doesn’t disappear to nothing right? Would it be like a air bubble in water?

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Depends where, if the air is evacuated in orbit then the air molecules will probably end up falling back into the atmosphere, if the air is evacuated in deep space the air molecules will just travel off into space in a straight line away from the spacecraft.

Edit just to add them won’t all go off in the same direction they’ll all be flying off on random directions.

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