We study the change in multiparticle entanglement if one particle becomes classical, in the sense that this particle is destructed by a measurement but the gained information is encoded into a new register. We present an estimation of this change for different entanglement measures and ways of encoding. We first simplify the numerical calculation to analyze the change in entanglement under classicalization in special cases. Second, we provide general upper and lower bounds on the entanglement change. Third, we show that the entanglement change caused only by classicalization of one qubit can still be arbitrarily large. Finally, we discuss cases where no entanglement is left under classicalization for any possible measurement. Our results shed light on the storage of quantum resources and help to develop a different direction in the field of quantum resource theories.

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• Quantum channels
• Quantum correlations in quantum information
• Quantum entanglement
• Resource theories