The danger of used propellant

Assuming we never break Newton's third law, in the near future thousands of chemical/nuclear/electric powered spaceships will be flying through our solar system expelling reaction mass.

Since a grain of dust can crack a window on a space shuttle going at a relatively very slow orbital speed would not all these trillions of atoms of propellant put a limit on the upper speed of spacecraft before dangerous abrasion starts to become a problem? or is the kinetic energy of all these atoms too small to account for anything?

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