Orders of magnitude (volume)
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| Factor ( m³ ) | Multiple | Value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10−106 | -- | 1.76925569946 m3 is the Planck volume | |
| 10−45 | -- | Classical Classical electron radius The classical electron radius, also known as the Lorentz radius or the Thomson scattering length, is based on a classical relativistic model of the electron... volume of an electron Electron The electron is a subatomic particle with a negative elementary electric charge. It has no known components or substructure; in other words, it is generally thought to be an elementary particle. An electron has a mass that is approximately 1/1836 that of the proton... (~9.4×10−44 m3) | |
| 10−42 | -- | Volume of a proton Proton The proton is a subatomic particle with the symbol or and a positive electric charge of 1 elementary charge. One or more protons are present in the nucleus of each atom, along with neutrons. The number of protons in each atom is its atomic number.... (~1.5×10−41 m3) | |
| 10−33 | -- | Volume of a hydrogen Hydrogen Hydrogen is the chemical element with atomic number 1. It is represented by the symbol H. With an average atomic weight of , hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant chemical element, constituting roughly 75% of the Universe's chemical elemental mass. Stars in the main sequence are mainly... atom Atom The atom is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. The atomic nucleus contains a mix of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons... (6.54 m3) | 10-33 m3, 10-32 m3, 10-31 m3 |
| 10−21 | 1 attolitre | Volume of a typical virus Virus A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea... (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 Red blood cell Red blood cells are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate organism's principal means of delivering oxygen to the body tissues via the blood flow through the circulatory system... (90 femtolitres, 9×10−17 m3) | 10-18 m3 1 E-18 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between 10-18 cubic meters and 10-17 cubic meters . a litre is 10-3 cubic metres, so 10-18cubic metres is -15 litres, or one femtometre... , 10-17 m3 1 E-17 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between 10-17 cubic meters and 10-16 cubic meters . See also volumes or capacities of other orders of magnitude.* Volumes less than 10 femtolitres... , 10-16 m3 1 E-16 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between 10−16 cubic meters and 10−15 cubic meters... |
| 10−15 | 1 picolitre | A small grain of sand Sand Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.The composition of sand is highly variable, depending on the local rock sources and conditions, but the most common constituent of sand in inland continental settings and non-tropical coastal... (0.063 mm diameter, 3 micrograms, 130 picolitres, almost a million times a virus) | 10-15 m3 1 E-15 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between 10-15 cubic meters and 10-14 cubic meters . See also volumes or capacities of other orders of magnitude.* Volumes less than 1 picolitre... , 10-14 m3 1 E-14 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between 10-14 cubic meters and 10-13 cubic meters . See also volumes or capacities of other orders of magnitude.* Volumes less than 10 picolitre**... , 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 1 E-10 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between 10−10 cubic metres and 10−9 cubic metres... |
| 10−9 | 1 microlitre | A large grain of sand (2.0 mm diameter, 95 milligrams, 4 microlitres, 64 medium sandgrains) | 10-9 m3 1 E-9 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between 10-9 cubic metres and 10-8 cubic metres... , 10-8 m3 1 E-8 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between 10-8 cubic metres and 10-7 cubic metres... , 10-7 m3 1 E-7 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between 10-7 cubic metres and 10-6 cubic metres... |
| 10−6 | 1 millilitre (1 cubic centimetre) | 1 teaspoon Teaspoon A teaspoon, an item of cutlery, is a small spoon, commonly part of a silverware place setting, suitable for stirring and sipping the contents of a cup of tea or coffee... = 3.55 ml to 5 ml (about 1000 large sandgrains) 1 tablespoon Tablespoon A tablespoon is a type of large spoon usually used for serving. A tablespoonful, the capacity of one tablespoon, is commonly used as a measure of volume in cooking... = 14.2 ml to 20 ml | 1 cm3 1 E-6 m³ Image:Scale one to thousand volume.svg|right|200px|Click on the small very dark purple bottom-left box for quantities smaller than 1, the dark purple box for 1 to 10 units, the mid purple box for 10 to 100 units, the light purple box for 100 to 1000 units and the paler purple surround for over 1000... , 10 cm3 1 E-5 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between 10-5 cubic metres and 10-4 cubic metres... , 100 cm3 1 E-4 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude, this page lists volumes between 10−4 m³ and 10−3 m³ or 100 millilitres and 1 litre. See also volumes or capacities of other orders of magnitude... |
| 10−3 | 1 litre Litre pic|200px|right|thumb|One litre is equivalent to this cubeEach side is 10 cm1 litre water = 1 kilogram water The litre is a metric system unit of volume equal to 1 cubic decimetre , to 1,000 cubic centimetres , and to 1/1,000 cubic metre... (1 cubic decimetre) | 200 5ml teaspoons 1 U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... quart Quart The quart is a unit of volume equal to a quarter of a gallon, two pints, or four cups. Since gallons of various sizes have historically been in use, quarts of various sizes have also existed; see gallon for further discussion. Three of these kinds of quarts remain in current use, all approximately... = 0.95 liters; 1 United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... quart = 1.14 litres | 1 dm3 1 E-3 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between at 10-3 m3 and 10-2 m³ . See also volumes or capacities of other orders of magnitude.* Volumes smaller than 1 litre* 1.0 litre is equal to:** 10-3 m3... , 10 dm3 1 E-2 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists volumes between 0.01 and 0.1 m3 . See also volumes or capacities of other orders of magnitude.*Volumes smaller than 10 litres* 0.01 m³ is equal to:** 1 E-2 m³** 10 litres... , 100 dm3 1 E-1 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists volumes from at 10-1 m³ to 1 m³. See also volumes or capacities of other orders of magnitude.*Volumes smaller than 100 litres*0.1 m³ is equal to:... |
| 100 | 1000 litres (one cubic metre) | Large domestic fridge-freezer Refrigerator A refrigerator is a common household appliance that consists of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump that transfers heat from the inside of the fridge to its external environment so that the inside of the fridge is cooled to a temperature below the ambient temperature of the room... (external dimensions) 20-foot shipping container TEU TEU may refer to:* Twenty-foot equivalent unit, a measure used for capacity in container transportation* Treaty on European Union, formal name of the Maastricht Treaty on the creation of the euro... = 28.0 m3 | 1 m3, 10 m3, 100 m3 |
| 103 | 1000 cubic metres (1 million litres) | A medium-size forest pond Pond A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is usually smaller than a lake. A wide variety of man-made bodies of water are classified as ponds, including water gardens, water features and koi ponds; all designed for aesthetic ornamentation as landscape or architectural... . An Olympic size swimming pool Olympic size swimming pool An Olympic-size swimming pool is the type of swimming pool used in the Olympic Games, where the race course is 50 meters in length. This is typically referred to as "long course", delineating it from "short course" which applies to competitions in pools that are either 25 meters or 25 yards in... , 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 Taipei 101 Taipei 101 , formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a landmark skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building ranked officially as the world's tallest from 2004 until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010... 's gross floor space Volume of oil spilt in the biggest oil gusher in U.S. history, the 1910 Lakeview Gusher Lakeview Gusher Lakeview Gusher Number One was an immense out-of-control pressurized oil well in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, California, resulting in what is the largest single oil spill in history, lasting 18 months and releasing of crude oil. In what was one of the largest oil reserves in... = 1.4 billion litres = 1.4 million m3 | 1 hm3, 10 hm3, 100 hm3 |
| 109 | 1 cubic kilometre | Volume of Lake Mead Lake Mead Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States. It is located on the Colorado River about southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the states of Nevada and Arizona. Formed by water impounded by the Hoover Dam, it extends behind the dam, holding approximately of water.-History:The lake was... (Hoover Dam Hoover Dam Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President... ) = 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 Lake Superior Lake Superior is the largest of the five traditionally-demarcated Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded to the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, and to the south by the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Michigan. It is the largest freshwater lake in the... = 12,232 km3 Volume of Lake Baikal Lake Baikal Lake Baikal is the world's oldest at 30 million years old and deepest lake with an average depth of 744.4 metres.Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, it is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the... = 23,600 km3 | 1012 m3, 1013 m3, 1014 m3 |
| 1015 | -- | Volume of Greenland ice cap = 2.6 m3 | 1015 m3, 1016 m3, 1017 m3 |
| 1018 | -- | Volume of water in all Earth ocean Ocean An ocean is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.More than half of this area is over 3,000... s = 1.4 m3 | 1018 m3, 1019 m3, 1020 m3 |
| 1021 | -- | Volume of Earth = ~1 m3 | 1021 m3, 1022 m3, 1023 m3 |
| 1024 | -- | Volume of Jupiter Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,... = ~1 m3 | 1024 m3, 1025 m3, 1026 m3 |
| 1027 | -- | Volume of Sun Sun The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields... = ~1 m3 | 1027 m3, 1028 m3, 1029 m3 |
| 1030 | -- | Volume of a red giant Red giant A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass in a late phase of stellar evolution. The outer atmosphere is inflated and tenuous, making the radius immense and the surface temperature low, somewhere from 5,000 K and lower... the same mass as the Sun = ~5 m3 | 1030 m3, 1031 m3, 1032 m3 |
| 1033 | -- | Volume of Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse, also known by its Bayer designation Alpha Orionis , is the eighth brightest star in the night sky and second brightest star in the constellation of Orion, outshining its neighbour Rigel only rarely... = ~2.75 m3 | 1033 m3, 1034 m3, 1035 m3 |
| 1036 | -- | Volume of the star Mu Cephei Mu Cephei Mu Cephei , also known as Herschel's Garnet Star, is a red supergiant star in the constellation Cepheus. It is one of the largest and most luminous stars known in the Milky Way... = 4 m3 | 1036 m3, 1037 m3, 1038 m3 |
| 1039 | -- | Volume of the Heliosphere Heliosphere The heliosphere is a bubble in space "blown" into the interstellar medium by the solar wind. Although electrically neutral atoms from interstellar volume can penetrate this bubble, virtually all of the material in the heliosphere emanates from the Sun itself... 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 Stingray Nebula The Stingray Nebula is the youngest known planetary nebula . The Stingray is located in the direction of the southern constellation... = ~1.7 m3 Volume of the bright inner nebula of the Cat's Eye Nebula Cat's Eye Nebula The Cat's Eye Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Draco. Structurally, it is one of the most complex nebulae known, with high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope observations revealing remarkable structures such as knots, jets, bubbles and sinewy arc-like features... = ~2.7 m3 8.47 m3 = 1 cubic light-year Light-year A light-year, also light year or lightyear is a unit of length, equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres... | 1045 m3, 1046 m3, 1047 m3 |
| 1048 | -- | Volume of the Oort Cloud Oort cloud The Oort cloud , or the Öpik–Oort cloud , is a hypothesized spherical cloud of comets which may lie roughly 50,000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sun. This places the cloud at nearly a quarter of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun... , assuming a radius of 50000 AU, = ~1.7 m3 Volume of the Dumbbell Nebula Dumbbell Nebula The Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light years.... = ~1.6 m3 Volume of the Bubble Nebula NGC 7635 NGC 7635, also called the Bubble Nebula, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11, is a H II region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52. The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, 8.7 magnitude young central... 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 NGC 1705 NGC 1705 is a peculiar lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pictor. It is estimated to be approximately 17 million light-years from the Earth. It is a member of the Dorado Group.-External links:*... = ~3 m3 Volume of the Local Bubble Local Bubble The Local Bubble is a cavity in the interstellar medium of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way. It is at least 300 light years across and has a neutral hydrogen density of about 0.05 atoms per cubic centimetre, or approximately one tenth of the average for the ISM in the Milky Way , and half that for... , 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 Large Magellanic Cloud The Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby irregular galaxy, and is a satellite of the Milky Way. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs , the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy lying closer to the center... = ~3 m3, about 35 thousand million cubic light years | 1057 m3, 1058 m3, 1059 m3 |
| 1060 | -- | Volume of a galaxy like the Milky Way Milky Way The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains the Solar System. This name derives from its appearance as a dim un-resolved "milky" glowing band arching across the night sky... = ~3.3 m3, about 39 million million 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 Local Group The Local Group is the group of galaxies that includes Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way. The group comprises more than 30 galaxies , with its gravitational center located somewhere between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy... = ~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 thousand million "Milky Way volumes" | 1069 m3, 1070 m3, 1071 m3 |
| 1072 | -- | Volume of the Local Void Local Void The Local Void is a vast, empty region of space, devoid of matter, located within the Virgo Supercluster and lying adjacent to our own Milky Way galaxy. Discovered by Brent Tully of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Local Void is millions of light years in length, the exact... = 1.2 m3, about 1.4 cubic light years, or 3.6 "Milky Way volumes" Volume of the Virgo Supercluster Virgo Supercluster The Virgo Supercluster or Local Supercluster is the irregular supercluster that contains the Virgo Cluster in addition to the Local Group, which in turn contains the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. At least 100 galaxy groups and clusters are located within its diameter of 33 megaparsecs... = 3.5 m3 Volume of the Sculptor Void Void (astronomy) In astronomy, voids are the empty spaces between filaments, the largest-scale structures in the Universe, that contain very few, or no, galaxies. They were first discovered in 1978 during a pioneering study by Stephen Gregory and Laird A. Thompson at the Kitt Peak National Observatory... = 1 m3, about 1.1 cubic light years, or 3 "Milky Way volumes" Least volume of the Southern Local Supervoid Southern Local Supervoid The Southern Local Supervoid is a tremendously large, nearly empty region of space .It lies next to the Local Supercluster, which contains our galaxy the Milky Way. Its center is 96 megaparsecs away and the void is 112 megaparsecs in diameter across its narrowest width. Its volume is very... = 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 Observable universe In Big Bang cosmology, the observable universe consists of the galaxies and other matter that we can in principle observe from Earth in the present day, because light from those objects has had time to reach us since the beginning of the cosmological expansion... 3.4 m3 | 1080 m3 1 E+80 m³ To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists volumes over 1080 m³).* Volumes from 1070 to 1079 cubic metres* 3.4×1080 m³: Volume of the Observable Universe* 7.1×1081 m³: Lower bound on the volume of the multiverse based on analysis of WMAP... |
| 1081 | -- | The universe is at least 21 times larger, roughly 7 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 MpcMPC -Astronomy:* Megaparsec, unit of length used in astronomy* Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory**Minor Planet Circulars, or astronomical publication from the Minor Planet Center... 3 implied by a resolution of the No-Boundary Proposal | 101010122 m3 | >