When air gets sucked out from a spacestation or whatever, where does the sucked out air go ?
In: Planetary Science
Air is a combination of several different atoms and molecules. If these particles are at a temperature above absolute 0 (-273 C) then those particles are moving around.
Air is fairly non dense, but it still has a lot of pressure. The particles want to spread away from each other and not touch. This actually presses down on your body as well.
On earth, this is caused by gravity pulling air down, so the pressure is based on how much air is above you.
In a sealed container, it’s based on the amount of air in a closed system and the temperature of that air, it bounces off of every surface and other air particles.
When one of those walls is broken, other air particles push out the air around the opening. The “suction” you feel is the air away from the hole pushing air towards the hole or anything else in contact with the air. Meanwhile there is less air to push “back” because it isn’t bouncing back off the wall.
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