Orders of magnitude (volume)

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

Chain structures in meteorite fragment ALH84001

Electron micrograph of icosahedral adenovirus

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

California poppy seeds

Mustard seeds

Peas in pods

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

Copper measuring jugs of 1 and Template:Frac gill

375 mL stubbie of beer

A Template:Frac-peck apple bag

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

A cubic metre of concrete

A TEU container

An Olympic swimming pool

LZ 129 Hindenburg

Great Pyramid of Giza

The Three Gorges Dam

Sydney Harbour

Solar System bodies with Earth volume or less

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.

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)

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>