Orders of magnitude (volume)

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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 () Multiple Value
10−105 -- 4×10−105 m³ is the Planck volume
10−45 -- Volume of a proton
10−33 -- Volume of a hydrogen atom (6.54×10-32 m³) 10-33 m³, 10-32 m³, 10-31
10−21 1 attolitre Volume of a typical virus (5 attolitres) 10-21 m³, 10-20 m³, 10-19
10−15 1 picolitre A small grain of sand (0.063 mm diameter, 3 micrograms, 130 picolitres) 10-15, 10-14, 10-13
10−12 1 nanolitre A medium grain of sand (0.5 mm diameter, 1.5 milligrams, 62 nanolitres) 10-12 m³, 10-11 m³, 10-10
10−9 1 microlitre A large grain of sand (2.0 mm diameter, 95 milligrams, 4 microlitres) 10-9, 10-8, 10-7
10−6 1 millilitre
(1 cubic centimetre)
1 teaspoon = 3.55 ml to 5 ml

1 tablespoon = 14.2 ml to 20 ml

1 cm³, 10 cm³, 100 cm³


10−3 1 litre
(1 cubic decimetre)
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. 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 megalitres.
1 dam³, 10 dam³, 100 dam³
106 1 million cubic metres -- 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 1012, 1013, 1014
1015 -- -- 1015, 1016, 1017
1018 -- Volume of water in all Earth oceans = 1.3×1018  1018, 1019, 1020
1021 -- Volume of Earth = ~1×1021  1021, 1022, 1023
1024 -- Volume of Jupiter = ~1×1025  1024, 1025, 1026
1027 -- Volume of Sun = ~1×1027  1027, 1028, 1029
1030 -- Volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun = ~5×1032  1030, 1031 m³, 1032
1033 -- Volume of Betelgeuse = ~2.75×1035  1033 m³, 1034 m³, 1035
1054 -- Volume of small dwarf galaxy like NGC 1705 = ~3×1055  1054 m³, 1055 m³, 1056
1057 -- Volume of dwarf galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud = ~3×1058  1057 m³, 1058 m³, 1059
1060 -- Volume of galaxy like the Milky Way = ~3.3×1061  1060 m³, 1061 m³, 1062
1066 -- Volume of the Local Group = ~5×1068  1066 m³, 1067 m³, 1068
1072 -- Volume of the Virgo Supercluster = ~4×1073  1072 m³, 1073 m³, 1074
1081 -- Approximate volume of the observable universe 1.6×1081 m³ 1081
Orders of magnitude (volume)

SI unit: cubic metre
Conversion of units#Volume


1 E-60 m³ 1 E-18 m³ 1 E-12 m³ 1 ml 1 m³ 1 E+6 m³ 1 E+12 m³ 1 E+18 m³ 1 E+24 m³ 1 E+30 m³
1 E-50 m³ 1 E-17 m³ 1 E-11 m³ 10 ml 10 m³ 1 E+7 m³ 1 E+13 m³ 1 E+19 m³ 1 E+25 m³ 1 E+40 m³
1 E-40 m³ 1 E-16 m³ 1 E-10 m³ 100 ml 100 m³ 1 E+8 m³ 1 E+14 m³ 1 E+20 m³ 1 E+26 m³ 1 E+50 m³
1 E-30 m³ 1 E-15 m³ 1 E-9 m³ 1 l 1000 m³ 1 E+9 m³ 1 E+15 m³ 1 E+21 m³ 1 E+27 m³ 1 E+60 m³
1 E-20 m³ 1 E-14 m³ 1 E-8 m³ 10 l 10000 m³ 1 E+10 m³ 1 E+16 m³ 1 E+22 m³ 1 E+28 m³ 1 E+70 m³
1 E-19 m³ 1 E-13 m³ 1 E-7 m³ 100 l 100,000 m³ 1 E+11 m³ 1 E+17 m³ 1 E+23 m³ 1 E+29 m³ 1 E+80 m³
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