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Orders of magnitude (volume)
| Powers of 10³ | equal to... | examples | orders of magnitude |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-45 cubic metres | -- | volume of a proton | |
| 10-9 cubic metres | -- | -- | 10-9 m³, 10-8 m³, 10-7 m³ |
| 10-6 cubic metres | 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 cubic metres | 1 litre (1 cubic decimetre) | 1 US quart of milk = 0.95 liters; 1 United Kingdom quart of milk = 1.14 litres | 1 dm³, 10 dm³, 100 dm³ |
| 1 cubic metre | 1000 litres | -- | 1 m³, 10 m³, 100 m³ |
| 103 cubic metres | 1000 cubic metres (1 million litres) | -- | 1 dam³, 10 dam³, 100 dam³ |
| 106 cubic metres | 1 million cubic metres | -- | 1 hm³, 10 hm³, 100 hm³ |
| 109 cubic metres | 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 cubic metres | 1000 cubic kilometres | Volume of Lake Superior = 12,232 km3 | 1012 m³, 1013 m³, 1014 m³ |
| 1015 cubic metres | -- | -- | 1015 m³, 1016 m³, 1017 m³ |
| 1018 cubic metres | -- | Volume of water in all Earth oceans = 1.3×1018 m3 | 1018 m³, 1019 m³ , 1020 m³ |
| 1021 cubic metres | -- | Volume of Earth = ~1×1021 m3 | 1021 m³, 1022 m³ , 1023 m³ |
| 1024 cubic metres | -- | Volume of Jupiter = ~1×1025 m3 | 1024 m³, 1025 m³ , 1026 m³ |
| 1027 cubic metres | -- | Volume of Sun = ~1×1027 m3 | 1027 m³, 1028 m³ , 1029 m³ |
| 1030 cubic metres | -- | Volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun = ~5×1032 m3 | 1030 m³, 1031 m³ , 1032 m³ |
| 1047 cubic metres | -- | 1 cubic light year = ~8.47×1047 m3 | 1047 m³ , 1048 m³ , 1049 m³ |
| 1081 m3 | -- | Approximate volume of the known universe 1.6 × 1081 m3
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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.)
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