when space craft “burn up” in the atmosphere and vaporize, where do all the tons of metal go?

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when space craft “burn up” in the atmosphere and vaporize, where do all the tons of metal go?

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The metal most certainly does not stay as metal vapor, as others have suggested. It may very well vaporize but it quickly combines with the oxygen in the atmosphere to become various metal oxides.

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