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Orders Of Magnitude (Volume) Orders of magnitude (volume or capacity) | Powers of 10 | equal to... | examples | orders of magnitude | | 10-45 cubic metres | -- | volume of a proton | | | 10-9 cubic metres | -- | -- | 10-9 m, 10-8 m, 10-7 m | | 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 cm, 10 cm, 100 cm | | 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 dm, 10 dm, 100 dm | | 1 cubic metre | 1000 litres | -- | 1 m, 10 m, 100 m | | 103 cubic metres | 1000 cubic metres
(1 million litres) | -- | 1 dam, 10 dam, 100 dam | | 106 cubic metres | 1 million cubic metres | -- | 1 hm, 10 hm, 100 hm | | 109 cubic metres | 1 cubic kilometre | Volume of Lake Mead (Hoover Dam) = 35.2 km3
Volume of crude oil on Earth = ~300 km3 | 1 km, 10 km, 100 km | | 1012 cubic metres | 1000 cubic kilometres | Volume of Lake Superior = 12,232 km3 | 1012 m, 1013 m, 1014 m | | 1015 cubic metres | -- | -- | 1015 m, 1016 m, 1017 m | | 1018 cubic metres | -- | Volume of water in all Earth oceans = 1.3×1018 m3 | 1018 m, 1019 m, 1020 m | | 1021 cubic metres | -- | Volume of Earth = ~1×1021 m3 | 1021 m, 1022 m, 1023 m | | 1024 cubic metres | -- | Volume of Jupiter = ~1×1025 m3 | 1024 m, 1025 m, 1026 m | | 1027 cubic metres | -- | Volume of Sun = ~1×1027 m3 | 1027 m, 1028 m, 1029 m | | 1030 cubic metres | -- | Volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun = ~5×1032 m3 | 1030 m, 1031 m, 1032 m | | 1047 cubic metres | -- | 1 cubic light year = ~8.47×1047 m3 | 1047 m, 1048 m, 1049 m | | 1081 m3 | -- | Approximate volume of the known universe 1.6 × 1081 m3 . | | 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: dam and hm stand for cubic decametre and cubic hectometre respectively. The terms in the left-hand column are common terminology.) *
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