Orders of magnitude (volume) 

The boxes show the relative sizes of volumes from 1 to 1000 cubic units

The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of volumes that are of the same order of magnitude (power of ten). Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand. (Note: dam³ and hm³ stand for cubic decametre and cubic hectometre respectively. The terms in the left-hand column are common terminology.)


List of orders of magnitude for volume
Factor (m³) Multiple Value
10−105 -- 17.692 55 69946 ×10−105 m³ is the Planck volume
10−45 -- Volume of a proton (~1.4×10-44 m³)
10−33 -- Volume of a hydrogen atom (6.54×10-32 m³) 10-33 m³, 10-32 m³, 10-31 m³
10−21 1 attolitre Volume of a typical virus (5 attolitres, a million million times a hydrogen atom) 10-21 m³, 10-20 m³, 10-19 m³
10−15 1 picolitre A small grain of sand (0.063 mm diameter, 3 micrograms, 130 picolitres, almost a million times a virus) 10-15 m³, 10-14 m³, 10-13 m³
10−12 1 nanolitre A medium grain of sand (0.5 mm diameter, 1.5 milligrams, 62 nanolitres, almost five hundred small sandgrains) 10-12 m³, 10-11 m³, 10-10 m³
10−9 1 microlitre A large grain of sand (2.0 mm diameter, 95 milligrams, 4 microlitres, 64 medium sandgrains) 10-9 m³, 10-8 m³, 10-7 m³
10−6 1 millilitre
(1 cubic centimetre)		 1 teaspoon = 3.55 ml to 5 ml (about 1000 large sandgrains)

1 tablespoon = 14.2 ml to 20 ml

 1 cm³, 10 cm³, 100 cm³


10−3 1 litre
(1 cubic decimetre)		 200 5ml teaspoons
1 U.S. quart = 0.95 liters;
1 United Kingdom quart = 1.14 litres		 1 dm³, 10 dm³, 100 dm³
100 1000 litres Fuel tank for a 12-passenger turboprop airplane.
40 foot container unit = 67.5 m³		 1 m³, 10 m³, 100 m³
103 1000 cubic metres
(1 million litres)		 A medium-size forest pond.
An Olympic size swimming pool, 25 metres by 50 metres by 2 metres deep, holds at least 2.5 million litres.		 1 dam³, 10 dam³, 100 dam³
106 1 million cubic metres About the volume of Taipei 101's gross floor space1 1 hm³, 10 hm³, 100 hm³
109 1 cubic kilometre Volume of Lake Mead (Hoover Dam) = 35.2 km3

Volume of crude oil on Earth = ~300 km3

 1 km³, 10 km³, 100 km³
1012 1000 cubic kilometres Volume of Lake Superior = 12,232 km3

Volume of Lake Baikal = 23,600 km3

 1012 m³, 1013 m³, 1014 m³
1015 -- -- 1015 m³, 1016 m³, 1017 m³
1018 -- Volume of water in all Earth oceans = 1.3×1018  1018 m³, 1019 m³, 1020 m³
1021 -- Volume of Earth = ~1×1021  1021 m³, 1022 m³, 1023 m³
1024 -- Volume of Jupiter = ~1×1025  1024 m³, 1025 m³, 1026 m³
1027 -- Volume of Sun = ~1×1027  1027 m³, 1028 m³, 1029 m³
1030 -- Volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun = ~5×1032  1030 m³, 1031 m³, 1032 m³
1033 -- Volume of Betelgeuse = ~2.75×1035  1033 m³, 1034 m³, 1035 m³
1036 -- Volume of the star Mu Cephei = 4 ×1036  1036 m³, 1037 m³, 1038 m³
1039 -- Volume of the Heliosphere inside the Termination shock = 6 to 10 ×1039  1039 m³, 1040 m³, 1041 m³
1042 -- 1042 m³, 1043 m³, 1044 m³
1045 -- Volume of the Stingray Nebula = ~1.7×1045 

Volume of the bright inner nebula of the Cat's Eye Nebula = ~2.7×1046 
8.47×1047 m³ = 1 cubic light-year

 1045 m³, 1046 m³, 1047 m³
1048 -- Volume of the Oort Cloud, assuming a radius of 50000 AU, = ~1.7×1048 

Volume of the Dumbbell Nebula = ~1.6×1049 
Volume of the Bubble Nebula in the Milky Way = ~4×1050 

 1048 m³, 1049 m³, 1050 m³
1051 -- 1051 m³, 1052 m³, 1053 m³
1054 -- Volume of small dwarf galaxy like NGC 1705 = ~3×1055 

Volume of the Local Bubble, assuming a radius of 100 parsecs = ~3.3×1055 m³, about 39 million cubic light years

 1054 m³, 1055 m³, 1056 m³
1057 -- Volume of dwarf galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud = ~3×1058 m³, about 35 thousand million cubic light years 1057 m³, 1058 m³, 1059 m³
1060 -- Volume of galaxy like the Milky Way = ~3.3×1061 m³, about 39 million million cubic light years 1060 m³, 1061 m³, 1062 m³
1063 -- 1063 m³, 1064 m³, 1065 m³
1066 -- Volume of the Local Group = ~5×1068 m³, about 15 million "Milky Way volumes" 1066 m³, 1067 m³, 1068 m³
1069 -- Volume of the Gemini Void = 6.7×1071 m³2 or 20 thousand million "Milky Way volumes"
 1069 m³, 1070 m³, 1071 m³
1072 -- Volume of the Local Void = 1.2×1072 m³, about 1.4×1024 cubic light years,2 or 3.6×1010 "Milky Way volumes"

Volume of the Virgo Supercluster = 3.5×1072 m³3
Volume of the Sculptor Void = 1×1073 m³, about 1.1×1025 cubic light years,2 or 3×1011 "Milky Way volumes"
Least volume of the Southern Local Supervoid = 2×1073 m³, about 2.2×1025 cubic light years,4 or 6×1011 "Milky Way volumes"

 1072 m³, 1073 m³, 1074 m³
1080 -- Approximate volume of the observable universe 3.4 ×1080 m³ 1080 m³

Notes

  1. ^ 198000 square metres floor space from Structurae multiplied by the "Slab to Slab Height" of 4.20 metres from taipei-101.com.tw gives 831600 cubic metres. Floors one to eight can be approximated as 4300 square metres (from [1]) times 8 times 4.2 metres, or an additional 134400 cubic metres, giving an estimated 966000 cubic metres.
  2. ^ a b c An Atlas of the Universe. The Nearest Superclusters. Retrieved 2008-11-19
  3. ^ assuming it is a sphere of 100 million light year radius
  4. ^ Einasto, M (1994-07-15), "The Structure of the Universe Traced by Rich Clusters of Galaxies", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 269, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994MNRAS.269..301E 
SI derived unit cubic metre, from base unit metre Orders of magnitude for volume Conversion of units for volume
1 E-36 m³ = 1 pm³ 1 E-27 m³ = 1 nm³ 1 E-18 m³ = 1 µm³ 1 E-9 m³ = 1 mm³ 1 E0 m³ = 1 m³ 1 E+9 m³ = 1 km³ 1 E+18 m³ = 1 Mm³  1 E+27 m³ =  1 Gm³
10 pm³ 10 nm³ 10 µm³ 10 mm³ 10 m³ 10 km³ 10 Mm³ 10 Gm³
100 pm³ 100 nm³ 100 µm³ 100 mm³ 100 m³ 100 km³ 100 Mm³ 100 Gm³
1,000 pm³ 1,000 nm³ 1,000 µm³ 1,000 mm³ = 1 cm³ 1,000 m³ = 1 dam³ 1,000 km³ 1,000 Mm³ 1,000 Gm³
10,000 pm³ 10,000 nm³ 10,000 µm³ 10,000 mm³ = 10 cm³ 10,000 m³ = 10 dam³ 10,000 km³ 10,000 Mm³ 10,000 Gm³
100,000 pm³ 100,000 nm³ 100,000 µm³ 100,000 mm³ = 100 cm³ 100,000 m³ = 100 dam³ 100,000 km³ 100,000 Mm³
1,000,000 pm³ 1,000,000 nm³ 1,000,000 µm³ 1,000,000 mm³ = 1 dm³ 1,000,000 m³ = 1 hm³ 1,000,000 km³ 1,000,000 Mm³ 1 E+40 m³
10,000,000 pm³ 10,000,000 nm³ 10,000,000 µm³ 10,000,000 mm³ = 10 dm³ 10,000,000 m³ = 10 hm³ 10,000,000 km³ 10,000,000 Mm³ 1 E+50 m³
100,000,000 pm³ 100,000,000 nm³ 100,000,000 µm³ 100,000,000 mm³ = 100 dm³ 100,000,000 m³ = 100 hm³ 100,000,000 km³ 100,000,000 Mm³ 1 E+80 m³
1 E-6 m³ = 1 cm³ = 1 mL  • 1 E-5 m³ = 10 cm³ = 1 cL • 1 E-4 m³ = 100 cm³ = 1 dL  • 1 E-3 m³ = 1 dm³ = 1 L ; • 1 E-2 m³ = 10 dm³ = 1 daL  • 1 E-1 m³ = 100 dm³ = 1 hL  • 1 E0 m³ = 1 m³ = 1 kL
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