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Orders of magnitude (volume)

Orders of magnitude
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Orders of magnitude (volume or capacity)

Powers of 10³	equal to...	examples	orders of magnitude
10-9 cubic metres	--	--	10-9 m³ , 10-8 m³ , 10-7 m³
10-6 cubic metres	1 millilitre (1 cubic centimetre)	--	1 cm³, 10 cm³, 100 cm³
10-3 cubic metres	1 litre (1 cubic decimetre)	1 US quart of milk = 0.95 liters; 1 UK quart of milk = 1.14 litres	1 dm³, 10 dm³, 100 dm³
1 cubic metre	1000 litres	--	1 m³, 10 m³, 100 m³
103 cubic metres	1000 cubic metres (1 million litres)	--	1 dam³, 10 dam³, 100 dam³
106 cubic metres	1 million cubic metres	--	1 hm³, 10 hm³, 100 hm³
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
1015 cubic metres	--	--	1015 m³, 1016 m³, 1017 m³
1018 cubic metres	--	Volume of water in all Earth oceans = 1.3×1018 m3	1018 m³, 1019 m³, 1020 m³
1021 cubic metres	--	Volume of Earth = ~1×1021 m3	1021 m³, 1022 m³, 1023 m³
1024 cubic metres	--	Volume of Jupiter = ~1×1025 m3	1024 m³, 1025 m³, 1026 m³
1027 cubic metres	--	Volume of Sun = ~1×1027 m3	1027 m³, 1028 m³, 1029 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: dam³ and hm³ stand for cubic decametre and cubic hectometre respectively. The terms in the left-hand column are common terminology.)

See also

• SI
• SI prefixes
• SI base units
• units
• volume
• orders of magnitude

• orders of magnitude (length)
• orders of magnitude (area)
• orders of magnitude (mass)
• orders of magnitude (time)

• Planck units
• BambooWeb:size comparisons