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.)
class="wikitable"
!Factor (
m³)
!Multiple
!Value
!
10−105
| --
| 4.22419 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 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)
| 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
|
108
| --
| Volume of all humans alive on the planet (based on average mass of 40-70kg per human) = ~0.3-0.5 km3
| 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 m3
Volume of Ceres = 4.5 m3
| 1015 m3, 1016 m3, 1017 m3
|
1018
| --
| Volume of water in all Earth oceans = 1.4 m3
Volume of Pluto = 6.4 m3
| 1018 m3, 1019 m3, 1020 m3
|
1021
| --
| Volume of Earth = ~1 m3
| 1021 m3, 1022 m3, 1023 m3
|
1024
| --
| Volume of Jupiter = ~1 m3
| 1024 m3, 1025 m3, 1026 m3
|
1027
| --
| Volume of Sun = ~1 m3
| 1027 m3, 1028 m3, 1029 m3
|
1030
| --
| Volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun = ~5 m3
| 1030 m3, 1031 m3, 1032 m3
|
1033
| --
| Volume of Betelgeuse = ~2.75 m3
| 1033 m3, 1034 m3, 1035 m3
|
1036
| --
| Volume of the star Mu Cephei = 4 m3
| 1036 m3, 1037 m3, 1038 m3
|
1039
| --
| Volume of the Heliosphere inside the Termination shock = 6 to 10 m3
| 1039 m3, 1040 m3, 1041 m3
|
1042
| --
|
| 1042 m3, 1043 m3, 1044 m3
|
1045
| --
| Volume of the Stingray Nebula = ~1.7 m3
Volume of the bright inner nebula of the Cat's Eye Nebula = ~2.7 m3
8.47 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 m3
Volume of the Dumbbell Nebula = ~1.6 m3
Volume of the Bubble Nebula in the Milky Way = ~4 m3
| 1048 m3, 1049 m3, 1050 m3
|
1051
| --
|
| 1051 m3, 1052 m3, 1053 m3
|
1054
| --
| Volume of small dwarf galaxy like NGC 1705 = ~3 m3
Volume of the Local Bubble, assuming a radius of 100 parsecs = ~3.3 m3, about 39 million cubic light years
| 1054 m3, 1055 m3, 1056 m3
|
1057
| --
| Volume of dwarf galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud = ~3 m3, about 35 × 109 cubic light years
| 1057 m3, 1058 m3, 1059 m3
|
1060
| --
| Volume of a galaxy like the Milky Way = ~3.3 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 m3, about 15 million "Milky Way volumes"
| 1066 m3, 1067 m3, 1068 m3
|
1069
| --
| Volume of the Gemini Void = 6.7 m3 or 20 × 109 "Milky Way volumes"
| 1069 m3, 1070 m3, 1071 m3
|
1072
| --
| Volume of the Local Void = 1.2 m3, about 1.4 cubic light years, or 3.6 "Milky Way volumes"
Volume of the Virgo Supercluster = 3.5 m3
Volume of the Sculptor Void = 1 m3, about 1.1 cubic light years, or 3 "Milky Way volumes"
Least volume of the Southern Local Supervoid = 2 m3, about 2.2 cubic light years, or 6 "Milky Way volumes"
| 1072 m3, 1073 m3, 1074 m3
|
1080
| --
| Approximate volume of the observable universe 3.4 m3
| 1080 m3 |
1081
| --
| The universe is at least 21 times larger, roughly 7 m3, than what is observable, according to a WMAP analysis
| 1081 m3 |
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