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	--	4.22419 ×10−105 m3 is the Planck volume
10−45	--	Classical volume of an electron (~9.4×10−44 m3)
10−42	--	Volume of a proton (~1.5×10−41 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
10−18	1 femtolitre	Volume of a human red blood cell (90 femtolitres, 9×10−17 m3)	10-18 m3, 10-17 m3, 10-16 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 (one cubic metre)	Large domestic fridge-freezer (external dimensions) 20-foot shipping container = 28.0 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 space Volume of oil spilt in the biggest oil gusher in U.S. history, the 1910 Lakeview Gusher = 1.4 billion litres = 1.4 million m3	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	--	Volume of Greenland ice cap = 2.6×1015 m3 Volume of Ceres = 4.5×1017 m3	1015 m3, 1016 m3, 1017 m3
1018	--	Volume of water in all Earth oceans = 1.4×1018 m3 Volume of Pluto = 6.4×1018 m3	1018 m3, 1019 m3, 1020 m3
1021	--	Volume of Earth = ~1×1021 m3	1021 m3, 1022 m3, 1023 m3
1024	--	Volume of Jupiter = ~1×1024 m3	1024 m3, 1025 m3, 1026 m3
1027	--	Volume of Sun = ~1×1027 m3	1027 m3, 1028 m3, 1029 m3
1030	--	Volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun = ~5×1032 m3	1030 m3, 1031 m3, 1032 m3
1033	--	Volume of Betelgeuse = ~2.75×1035 m3	1033 m3, 1034 m3, 1035 m3
1036	--	Volume of the star Mu Cephei = 4 ×1036 m3	1036 m3, 1037 m3, 1038 m3
1039	--	Volume of the Heliosphere inside the Termination shock = 6 to 10 ×1039 m3	1039 m3, 1040 m3, 1041 m3
1042	--		1042 m3, 1043 m3, 1044 m3
1045	--	Volume of the Stingray Nebula = ~1.7×1045 m3 Volume of the bright inner nebula of the Cat's Eye Nebula = ~2.7×1046 m3 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 m3 Volume of the Dumbbell Nebula = ~1.6×1049 m3 Volume of the Bubble Nebula in the Milky Way = ~4×1050 m3	1048 m3, 1049 m3, 1050 m3
1051	--		1051 m3, 1052 m3, 1053 m3
1054	--	Volume of small dwarf galaxy like NGC 1705 = ~3×1055 m3 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 × 109 cubic light years	1057 m3, 1058 m3, 1059 m3
1060	--	Volume of a galaxy like the Milky Way = ~3.3×1061 m3, about 39 × 1012 cubic light years	1060 m3, 1061 m3, 1062 m3
1063	--	Volume of whole Milky Way including Globes.	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 m3 or 20 × 109 "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, or 3.6×1010 "Milky Way volumes" Volume of the Virgo Supercluster = 3.5×1072 m3 Volume of the Sculptor Void = 1×1073 m3, about 1.1×1025 cubic light years, or 3×1011 "Milky Way volumes" Least volume of the Southern Local Supervoid = 2×1073 m3, about 2.2×1025 cubic light years, 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
1081	--	The universe is at least 21 times larger, roughly 7 ×1081 m3,than what is observable, according to a WMAP analysis	1081 m3
101010122	--	Lower bound on the size of the universe after Inflation (cosmology) is $10^{10^{10^{122}}}$ Mpc3 implied by a resolution of the No-Boundary Proposal	101010122 m3

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