When air gets sucked out from a spacestation or whatever, where does the sucked out air go ?

Question

When air gets sucked out from a spacestation or whatever, where does the sucked out air go ?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

Gases like air wants to spread out as thinly as possible. Inside a spaceship, air is held at a reasonably high pressure. When a hole opens in the ship, the air now has pretty much infinite space to spread thinly out into.

So the air doesn’t really get sucked out, it merely moves to an empty space it can attempt to fill.