Orders of magnitude (volume)

Template:Short description The table lists various objects and units by the order of magnitude of their volume.

File:ALH84001 structures.jpg

Chain structures in meteorite fragment ALH84001

File:Icosahedral Adenoviruses.jpg

Electron micrograph of icosahedral adenovirus

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A scanning electron microscope image of normal circulating human blood showing red blood cells, several knobbly white blood cells including lymphocytes, a monocyte, a neutrophil and many small disc-shaped platelets

File:SeedsCaliforniapoppy.jpg

California poppy seeds

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Mustard seeds

File:Peas in pods - Studio.jpg

Peas in pods

File:4MeasuringSpoons.jpg

Measuring spoons of 1 tablespoon and 1, Template:Frac and Template:Frac teaspoon

File:Gill-photo.jpg

Copper measuring jugs of 1 and Template:Frac gill

File:VB-stubbie.jpg

375 mL stubbie of beer

File:Half peck apple bag.jpg

A Template:Frac-peck apple bag

File:Drum (container).jpg

A standard 200-litre
(55 US or 44 imp gal) drum

File:Metre-cube-beton-p1040192.jpg

A cubic metre of concrete

File:Teu.jpg

A TEU container

File:Olympic Swimming Pool - Fast Lane.JPG

An Olympic swimming pool

File:Hindenburg burning.jpg

LZ 129 Hindenburg

File:Kheops-Pyramid.jpg

Great Pyramid of Giza

File:ThreeGorgesDam-China2009.jpg

The Three Gorges Dam

File:Sydney Harbour Bridge from the air.JPG

Sydney Harbour

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Solar System bodies with Earth volume or less

File:1e15m comparison cat's eye nebula barnard 68 one light year.png

The Cat's Eye Nebula on left (about Template:Val) and the dark cloud Barnard 68 at top (about Template:Val) are of comparable volumes; the Stingray Nebula between them is smaller with a similar volume as the small yellow light-month radius sphere, about Template:Val.

File:1e16m comparison ten light years bubble nebula.png

The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) at left with about 520 cubic light years (Template:Val) dwarfs the Dumbbell Nebula's 12 cubic light years (Template:Val) (very approximate figures)

File:1e17m comparison 100 light years nebula clusters.png

The globular cluster Messier 5 at upper left with about 2 million cubic light years (Template:Val) dwarfs the much smaller Bubble Nebula at lower right.

Sub-microscopic

Volume (m3)	Example
Template:Val	The Planck volume
Template:Val	One cubic quectometre
Template:Val	One cubic rontometre
Template:Val	One cubic yoctometre
Template:Val	One cubic zeptometre
Template:Val	One cubic attometre
Template:Val	One cubic femtometre
Template:Val	Volume of a proton
Template:Val	Classical volume of an electron
Template:Val	One cubic picometre
Template:Val	One quectolitre
Template:Val	One cubic ångström or one rontolitre
Template:Val	Volume enclosed by the Van der Waals radius of a hydrogen atom
Template:Val	van der Waals volume of a helium atom
Template:Val	volume enclosed by the van der Waals radius of a gold atom
Template:Val	van der Waals volume of a Template:Chem molecule
Template:Val	van der Waals volume of a Template:Chem molecule
Template:Val	One cubic nanometre or one yoctolitre
Template:Val	One zeptolitre
Template:Val	Typical volume of structures on the Martian meteorite ALH84001
Template:Val	One attolitre
Template:Val	Volume of hypothesised nanobacteria
Template:Val	Volume of a typical virus

Microscopic

Volume (m3)	Example
Template:Val	One cubic micrometre or one femtolitre
Template:Val	Average volume of a platelet
Template:Val	Normal volume of a human red blood cell
Template:Val	Average volume of a lymphocyte
Template:Val	Mean volume of a neutrophil granulocyte
Template:Val	Volume of an average monocyte
Template:Val	One picolitre
Template:Val	One drop from a high resolution colour inkjet printer
Template:Val	a very fine grain of sand (0.063 mm diameter, 3 micrograms)
Template:Val	One nanolitre
Template:Val	A medium grain of sand (0.5 mm diameter, 1.5 milligrams)
Template:Val	Volume of a poppy seed of 1-millimetre diameter<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Val	One cubic millimetre or one microlitre
Template:Val	Volume of a mustard seed of 2-millimetre diameter
Template:Val	Volume of a small grain of rice 2 mm wide by 5 mm long

Human measures

Volume (m3)	Example
Template:Val	One imperial minim
Template:Val	One US minim
Template:Val	Volume of a large grain of rice 3 mm wide by 12 mm long
Template:Val	Average volume of a pea
Template:Val	One cubic centimetre or one millilitre
Template:Val	One imperial fluid scruple
Template:Val	One US fluid scruple
Template:Val	One sai
Template:Val	One imperial fluid drachm
Template:Val	One US fluid dram
Template:Val	Average human ejaculation<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Val	One teaspoon
Template:Val	One ligula
Template:Val	One tablespoon
Template:Val	One cubic inch
Template:Val	One shaku
Template:Val	One imperial fluid ounce
Template:Val	One US fluid ounce
Template:Val	Average amount of blood lost by a woman during menstruation
Template:Val	One cyathus
Template:Val	One acetabulum
Template:Val	Maximum volume of non-exempt liquids, gels, and aerosols allowed in a U.S. air traveler's carry-on luggage
Template:Val	One US gill
Template:Val	One quartarius
Template:Val	One imperial gill
Template:Val	One gō (a common size for serving sake)
Template:Val	one Roman hemina or cotyla
Template:Val	Volume of stubby or steinie of beer (Europe–330 mL, Canada–341 mL, Japan–350 mL, US–355 mL, Australia–375 mL)
Template:Val	Rough volume of the human urinary bladder
Template:Val	One US liquid pint
Template:Val	One sextarius
Template:Val	One US dry pint
Template:Val	One imperial pint
Template:Val	The most common volume for wine and liquor bottles, also the size of an Australian long neck of beer; sometimes called a 'fifth' in the United States for its approximation to the once-common one-fifth-gallon bottle
Template:Val	One US liquid quart
Template:Val	One cubic decimetre or one litre
Template:Val	Volume of 1 kilogram of distilled water (at the temperature of maximum density (Template:Convert) and standard atmospheric pressure (101.325 kPa))
Template:Val	One US dry quart
Template:Val	One imperial quart
Template:Val	Typical range of automobile engine displacements
Template:Val	Human brain cavity
Template:Val	One shō (formerly a common sake-bottle size)
Template:Val	One US liquid gallon
Template:Val	One semimodius
Template:Val	One US dry gallon
Template:Val	One imperial gallon
Template:Val	Approximate volume of the blood in one adult human
Template:Val	Average total volume of the lungs of a male human
Template:Val	One US peck
Template:Val	One imperial peck
Template:Val	One urna
Template:Val	One to
Template:Val	One Ancient Greek amphora
Template:Val	One Roman amphora
Template:Val	One French amphora
Template:Val	One cubic foot
Template:Val	One US bushel
Template:Val	One imperial bushel
Template:Val	One firkin
Template:Val	Gasoline fuel tank in a car (Volvo 240)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Val	One rundlet
Template:Val	Average volume of an adult human
Template:Val	One kilderkin
Template:Val	One US barrel for cranberries
Template:Val	One US dry barrel
Template:Val	One US beer barrel, 31 US gallons
Template:Val	One US fluid barrel (apart from oil or beer), 31.5 US gallons
Template:Val	One oil barrel, 42 US gallons, about one tierce (158–160 L)
Template:Val	One imperial barrel, 36 imperial gallons
Template:Val	One koku
Template:Val	Standard drum size used for shipping bulk cargo
Template:Val	One hogshead
Template:Val	One puncheon or tertian
Template:Val	One butt (an old unit for beer and wine)
Template:Val	One culeus
Template:Val	One cubic yard
Template:Val	One tun (an old unit for beer and wine)
Template:Val	One cubic metre, one kilolitre or one stère—volume of a large domestic fridge-freezer (external dimensions)
Template:Val	External volume of a standard 20-foot ("TEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 33.1 cubic metres
Template:Val	External volume of a standard 40-foot ("FEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 67.5 cubic metres

Terrestrial

Volume (m3)	Example
Template:Val	Volume of a rear-engine Leyland Titan London double-decker bus
Template:Val	Volume of any A Division New York City Subway car
Template:Convert	One cubic decametre or one megalitre
Template:Val	One acre-foot
Template:Val	Volume of an Olympic size swimming pool of minimal depth Template:Nowrap.
Template:Val	Volume of each of the nine spheres of the Atomium in Brussels
Template:Val	Gas volume in the first zeppelin LZ 1
Template:Val	Amount of concrete in Trbovlje Chimney
Template:Val	Quebec's 2001 output of maple syrup
Template:Val	Typical volume of a large gasometer
Template:Val	Volume of the Royal Albert Hall auditorium<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of gas in the USS Macon (ZRS-5) zeppelin
Template:Val	Volume of gas in the Hindenburg zeppelin
Template:Val	Volume of crude oil that can be carried aboard the Knock Nevis supertanker
Template:Val	Volume of Taipei 101's gross floor space<ref>Template:Val square metres floor space from Structurae multiplied by the "Slab to Slab Height" of 4.20 metres from taipei-101.com.tw Template:Webarchive gives Template:Val cubic metres. Floors one to eight can be approximated as Template:Val square metres (from [1] Template:Webarchive) times 8 times 4.2 metres, or an additional Template:Val cubic metres, giving an estimated Template:Val cubic metres.</ref>
Template:Convert	One cubic hectometre, one gigalitre or one kilostère
Template:Val	Volume the 1910 Lakeview Gusher oil spilt (the biggest oil gusher in US history)
Template:Val	Volume of concrete in the Panama Canal Locks
Template:Val	Volume of stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza
Template:Val	Approximately amount of mud and clay that slid into the South Nation River valley as a landslide on 20 June 1993
Template:Val	Volume of concrete in Hoover Dam
Template:Val	Volume of the NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building
Template:Val	Volume of chalk excavated in the construction of the Channel Tunnel
Template:Val	Volume of Chagan Lake, artificial lake created by nuclear explosion
Template:Val	Volume of material in the Gatun Dam, completed in 1913
Template:Val	Volume of concrete in the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest concrete structure
Template:Val	Volume of Aswan Dam
Template:Val	Volume of gas required per day by India in 2005
Template:Val	Volume of the Grimsel reservoir
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Baldegg, Switzerland
Template:Val	Volume of material excavated in the construction of the Panama Canal
Template:Val	Volume of Lac de la Gruyère, Switzerland
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Halwill, Switzerland
Template:Val	Volume of the Great Wall of China
Template:Val	Volume of all humans alive on the planet (based on an average mass of 40–70 kg per human)
Template:Val	Predicted volume of natural gas required per day by India in 2025
Template:Val	One sydharb—volume of Sydney Harbour, Australia<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Murten, Switzerland
Template:Convert	One cubic kilometre or one teralitre
Template:Val	Approximate volume of rock ejected during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
Template:Val	volume of Lake Biel, Switzerland
Template:Val	volume of Lake Walen, Switzerland
Template:Val	volume of Lake Zug
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Zürich
Template:Val	One cubic mile
Template:Val	Volume of crude oil consumed by the world in a year
Template:Val	volume of Lake Brienz
Template:Val	Volume of the artificial Gatun Lake (Panama Canal)
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Thun
Template:Val	volume of Lake Lugano
Template:Val	Estimated volume of rock ejected during the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
Template:Val	volume of Lake Neuchâtel
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Lucerne
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Mead, the reservoir of the Hoover Dam
Template:Val	Volume of Lago Maggiore
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Constance
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Geneva
Template:Val	Estimated volume of rock exploded in eruption of Mount Tambora volcano on 12 April 1815
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Nasser
Template:Val	Volume of Fedchenko Glacier and its tributaries
Template:Val	Estimated volume of the annual net inflow of seawater to the Black Sea (from the Mediterranean Sea via the Bosporus)
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Onega
Template:Val	Volume of crude oil on Earth
Template:Val	Estimated volume of the annual inflow of freshwater to the Black Sea
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Erie
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Ladoga
Template:Convert	One petalitre
Template:Val	Volume of the Aral Sea in 1960
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Victoria
Template:Val	Volume of magma erupted by the Toba supervolcano Template:Val years ago
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Michigan
Template:Val	Volume of the Fish Canyon Tuff erupted by the La Garita Caldera
Template:Val	Volume of the asteroid 433 Eros
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Superior
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Tanganyika
Template:Val	Volume of Lake Baikal
Template:Val	Volume of the Black Sea
Template:Val	One exalitre
Template:Convert	Volume of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, which contains the deepest point on the Earth's surface
Template:Val	Volume of Greenland ice cap
Template:Val	Volume of the Mediterranean Sea
Template:Val	Volume of water contained in the rings of Saturn (rough estimate)
Template:Val	Volume of water contained in the Antarctic ice sheet (rough estimate)
Template:Val	Volume of the Atlantic Ocean and volume of the Indian Ocean (rough estimates)
Template:Val	Volume of Ceres
Template:Val	One cubic megametre or one zettalitre—volume of the Pacific Ocean (rough estimate)
Template:Val	Volume of all oceans on Earth

Astronomical

Volume (m3)	Example
Template:Val	Estimated volume of Europa's oceans
Template:Val	Volume of Pluto
Template:Val	Volume of the Moon
Template:Val	Volume of planet Mercury
Template:Val	Volume of planet Mars
Template:Val	Volume of planet Venus
Template:Val	One yottalitre
Template:Val	Volume of planet Earth
Template:Val	Volume of all the rocky planets in the Solar System
Template:Val	Volume of planet Neptune
Template:Val	Volume of planet Uranus
Template:Val	Volume of planet Saturn
Template:Val	One ronnalitre
Template:Val	Volume of planet Jupiter
Template:Val	Total volume of all the planets in the Solar System
Template:Val	One cubic gigametre or one quettalitre
Template:Val	Volume of the Sun
Template:Val	volume of Alcyone, brightest star in the Pleiades<ref>Kaler, Jim, Alcyone, retrieved 18 November 2008: "radius nearly 10 solar"</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of Arcturus, brightest star in Boötes<ref>Mozurkewich, David; Armstrong, J. Thomas; Hindsley, Robert B.; Quirrenbach, Andreas; Hummel, Christian A.; Hutter, Donald J.; Johnston, Kenneth J.; Hajian, Arsen R.; Elias II, Nicholas M.; Buscher, David F.; and Simon, Richard S.; Angular diameters of stars from the Mark III optical interferometer, Astronomical Journal, 126, 2502–2520 (2003)</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of Rigel, the brightest star in Orion<ref>Its radius is 70 times the Sun's</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun
Template:Val	Volume of γ Crucis, a red giant in Crux<ref>Its radius is 113 times the Sun's.</ref><ref>= 11488.213 * 9.4605284 × 10(power of 15) X 1,000,000,000 meters long (appr)</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of Deneb, a white supergiant in Cygnus<ref name="ReferenceA">Its radius is estimated to be 200 to 300 times the Sun's</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of η Carinae, a white supergiant in Cygnus<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
Template:Val	Estimated volume of S Orionis<ref>VizeR page for Antares, retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.1e+02 solRad"</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of Antares, a slow irregular variable in Scorpius<ref>VizeR page for S Orionis, retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.3e+02 solRad"</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of Betelgeuse
Template:Val	One cubic terametre
Template:Val	Possible volume of μ Cephei (estimates vary)
Template:Val	Estimated volume of VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant star<ref>Humphreys, Roberta M.; VY Canis Majoris: The Astrophysical Basis of its Luminosity, arxiv.org, 13 October 2006, page 3, retrieved 18 November 2009: "1800 to 2100 R⊙"</ref>
Template:Val	volume of a sphere which would enclose the orbit of Neptune
Template:Val	Possible volume of the Heliosphere inside the termination shock
Template:Val	Daily increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula<ref name="Cat calc"/>
Template:Val	Annual increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula<ref name="Cat calc">Template:Fracπr3; core radius r = distance times sin(Template:Frac angular diameter) = 0.2 light year. Distance = 3.3 ± 0.9 kly; angular diameter = 20 arcseconds; expands 10 milliarcseconds per year.Template:Harv</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:Val	One cubic petametre
Template:Val	Approximate volume of the Stingray Nebula<ref>r = 0.08 light years; Template:Fracπr3 = Template:Val</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of the bright inner nebula of the Cat's Eye Nebula<ref name="Cat calc"/>
Template:Val	The volume of a Bok globule like Barnard 68<ref name="Szpir">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Bok sizes">their size varies: a globule one quarter light year in radius has Template:Val, one a half light year in radius has Template:Val, one a light year in radius has Template:Val</ref>
Template:Val	The volume of a Bok globule one light year across<ref name="Szpir"/><ref name="Bok sizes"/>
Template:Val	One cubic light-year
Template:Val	Volume of the Oort Cloud, assuming a radius of Template:Val
Template:Val	Volume of the Dumbbell Nebula
Template:Val	One cubic parsec
Template:Val	Approximate volume of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) (assuming a radius of 5 light years, sources differ)<ref name="APOD2006">Template:Cite APOD</ref><ref>Hubble Site, 2000. An Expanding Bubble in Space. "diameter of 6 light-years".</ref><ref>Template:Cite APOD</ref>
Template:Val	One cubic exametre
Template:Val	Estimated volume of a small dwarf galaxy like NGC 1705
Template:Val	Estimated volume of the Local Bubble, assuming a radius of 100 parsecs (~39 million cubic light years)
Template:Val	Estimated volume of a dwarf galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud
Template:Val	One cubic kiloparsec
Template:Val	Volume of a galaxy like the Milky Way
Template:Val	One cubic zettametre—approximate volume of whole Milky Way including Globes
Template:Val	Volume of the Local Group
Template:Val	Volume of the Gemini Void
Template:Val	One cubic yottametre
Template:Val	Volume of the Local Void (about Template:Val cubic light years)<ref name="atlas">An Atlas of the Universe. The Nearest Superclusters. Retrieved 19 November 2008</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of the Virgo Supercluster<ref>assuming it is a sphere of 100 million light year radius</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of the Sculptor Void (about Template:Val cubic light years)<ref name="atlas"/>
Template:Val	Least volume of the Southern Local Supervoid (about Template:Val cubic light years)<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
Template:Val	Volume of the Observable Universe
Template:Val	One cubic ronnametre
Template:Val	Lower bound on the volume of the universe based on analysis of WMAP<ref>https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605709v2 How Many Universes Do There Need To Be?</ref>
Template:Val	One cubic quettametre
Template:Val	rough upper bound on the physical size of the present universe, a result of the maximum number of Hubble volumes.<ref>https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.2924v1.pdf "On Cosmological Implications of Holographic Entropy Bound" p.4</ref>