Orders of magnitude (volume or capacity)
| Powers of 10³
| equal to...
| examples
| orders of magnitude
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| 10-45 cubic metres
| --
| volume of a proton
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| 10-9 cubic metres
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| --
| 10-9 m³, 10-8 m³, 10-7 m³
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| 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
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| 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
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| 1 cubic metre
| 1000 litres
| --
| 1 m³, 10 m³, 100 m³
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| 103 cubic metres
| 1000 cubic metres
(1 million litres)
| --
| 1 dam³, 10 dam³, 100 dam³
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| 106 cubic metres
| 1 million cubic metres
| --
| 1 hm³, 10 hm³, 100 hm³
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| 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
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| 1015 cubic metres
| --
| --
| 1015 m³, 1016 m³, 1017 m³
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| 1018 cubic metres
| --
| Volume of water in all Earth oceans = 1.3×1018 m3
| 1018 m³, 1019 m³ , 1020 m³
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| 1021 cubic metres
| --
| Volume of Earth = ~1×1021 m3
| 1021 m³, 1022 m³ , 1023 m³
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| 1024 cubic metres
| --
| Volume of Jupiter = ~1×1025 m3
| 1024 m³, 1025 m³ , 1026 m³
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| 1027 cubic metres
| --
| Volume of Sun = ~1×1027 m3
| 1027 m³, 1028 m³ , 1029 m³
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| 1030 cubic metres
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| Volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun = ~5×1032 m3
| 1030 m³, 1031 m³ , 1032 m³
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| 1047 cubic metres
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| 1 cubic light year = ~8.47×1047 m3
| 1047 m³ , 1048 m³ , 1049 m³
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| 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.)