Orders of magnitude (volume)

|The Planck volume

|One cubic quectometre

|One cubic rontometre

|One cubic yoctometre

|One cubic zeptometre

|One cubic attometre

|One cubic femtometre

|Volume of a proton

|Classical volume of an electron

|One cubic picometre

|One quectolitre

|One cubic ångström or one rontolitre

|Volume enclosed by the Van der Waals radius of a hydrogen atom

|van der Waals volume of a helium atom

|volume enclosed by the van der Waals radius of a gold atom

|van der Waals volume of a {{chem|link=Hydrogen|H|2}} molecule

|van der Waals volume of a {{chem|link=Oxygen|O|2}} molecule

|One cubic nanometre or one yoctolitre

|One zeptolitre

|Typical volume of structures on the Martian meteorite ALH84001

|One attolitre

|Volume of hypothesised nanobacteria

|Volume of a typical virus

|One cubic micrometre or one femtolitre

|Average volume of a platelet

|Normal volume of a human red blood cell

|Average volume of a lymphocyte

|Mean volume of a neutrophil granulocyte

|Volume of an average monocyte

|One picolitre

|One drop from a high resolution colour inkjet printer

|a very fine grain of sand (0.063 mm diameter, 3 micrograms)

|One nanolitre

|A medium grain of sand (0.5 mm diameter, 1.5 milligrams)

|Volume of a poppy seed of 1-millimetre diameter{{cite book |author=Gerald H. Ristow |title=Pattern Formation in Granular Materials |publisher=Springer |year=2000 |isbn=3-540-66701-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4x8MGJD3nMQC |accessdate=3 November 2008|page=193 }}

|One cubic millimetre or one microlitre

|Volume of a mustard seed of 2-millimetre diameter

|Volume of a small grain of rice 2 mm wide by 5 mm long

|One imperial minim

|One US minim

|Volume of a large grain of rice 3 mm wide by 12 mm long

|Average volume of a pea

|One cubic centimetre or one millilitre

|One imperial fluid scruple

|One US fluid scruple

|One sai

|One imperial fluid drachm

|One US fluid dram

|Average human ejaculation{{Cite web|url=https://www.everydayhealth.com/mens-health/can-less-semen-mean-low-testosterone.aspx|title = Does Low Sperm Volume Mean Low Testosterone?}}

|One teaspoon

|One ligula

|One tablespoon

|One cubic inch

|One shaku

|One imperial fluid ounce

|One US fluid ounce

|Average amount of blood lost by a woman during menstruation

|One cyathus

|One acetabulum

|Maximum volume of non-exempt liquids, gels, and aerosols allowed in a U.S. air traveler's carry-on luggage

|One US gill

|One quartarius

|One imperial gill

|One gō (a common size for serving sake)

|one Roman hemina or cotyla

|Volume of stubby or steinie of beer (Europe–330 mL, Canada–341 mL, Japan–350 mL, US–355 mL, Australia–375 mL)

|Rough volume of the human urinary bladder

|One US liquid pint

|One sextarius

|One US dry pint

|One imperial pint

|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

|One US liquid quart

|One cubic decimetre or one litre

|Volume of 1 kilogram of distilled water (at the temperature of maximum density ({{convert|3.98|C|disp=or}}) and standard atmospheric pressure (101.325 kPa))

|One US dry quart

|One imperial quart

|Typical range of automobile engine displacements

|Human brain cavity

|One shō (formerly a common sake-bottle size)

|One US liquid gallon

|One semimodius

|One US dry gallon

|One imperial gallon

|Approximate volume of the blood in one adult human

|Average total volume of the lungs of a male human

|One US peck

|One imperial peck

|One urna

|One to

|One Ancient Greek amphora

|One Roman amphora

|One French amphora

|One cubic foot

|One US bushel

|One imperial bushel

|One firkin

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|One rundlet

|Average volume of an adult human

|One kilderkin

|One US barrel for cranberries

|One US dry barrel

|One US beer barrel, 31 US gallons

|One US fluid barrel (apart from oil or beer), 31.5 US gallons

|One oil barrel, 42 US gallons, about one tierce (158–160 L)

|One imperial barrel, 36 imperial gallons

|One koku

|Standard drum size used for shipping bulk cargo

|One hogshead

|One puncheon or tertian

|One butt (an old unit for beer and wine)

|One culeus

|One cubic yard

|One tun (an old unit for beer and wine)

|One cubic metre, one kilolitre or one stère—volume of a large domestic fridge-freezer (external dimensions)

|External volume of a standard 20-foot ("TEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 33.1 cubic metres

|External volume of a standard 40-foot ("FEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 67.5 cubic metres

|Volume of a rear-engine Leyland Titan London double-decker bus

|Volume of any A Division New York City Subway car

|One cubic decametre or one megalitre

|One acre-foot

|Volume of an Olympic size swimming pool of minimal depth {{nowrap|(50 m × 25 m × 2 m)}}.

|Volume of each of the nine spheres of the Atomium in Brussels

|Gas volume in the first zeppelin LZ 1

|Amount of concrete in Trbovlje Chimney

|Quebec's 2001 output of maple syrup

|Typical volume of a large gasometer

|Volume of the Royal Albert Hall auditorium{{cite book

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|Volume of gas in the USS Macon (ZRS-5) zeppelin

|Volume of gas in the Hindenburg zeppelin

|Volume of crude oil that can be carried aboard the Knock Nevis supertanker

|Volume of Taipei 101's gross floor space{{val|198000}} square metres floor space from

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|One cubic hectometre, one gigalitre or one kilostère

|Volume the 1910 Lakeview Gusher oil spilt (the biggest oil gusher in US history)

|Volume of concrete in the Panama Canal Locks

|Volume of stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza

|Approximately amount of mud and clay that slid into the South Nation River valley as a landslide on 20 June 1993

|Volume of concrete in Hoover Dam

|Volume of the NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building

|Volume of chalk excavated in the construction of the Channel Tunnel

|Volume of Chagan Lake, artificial lake created by nuclear explosion

|Volume of material in the Gatun Dam, completed in 1913

|Volume of concrete in the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest concrete structure

|Volume of Aswan Dam

|Volume of gas required per day by India in 2005

|Volume of the Grimsel reservoir

|Volume of Lake Baldegg, Switzerland

|Volume of material excavated in the construction of the Panama Canal

|Volume of Lac de la Gruyère, Switzerland

|Volume of Lake Halwill, Switzerland

|Volume of the Great Wall of China

|Volume of all humans alive on the planet (based on an average mass of 40–70 kg per human)

|Predicted volume of natural gas required per day by India in 2025

|One sydharb—volume of Sydney Harbour, Australia{{cite web| url=http://www.awa.asn.au/Content/NavigationMenu/Information/UnitsofMeasurement.pdf| title=Australian Conventional Units of Measurement in Water| publisher=Australian Water Association| accessdate=10 March 2006|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20051030001225/http://www.awa.asn.au/Content/NavigationMenu/Information/UnitsofMeasurement.pdf|archivedate =30 October 2005}}

|Volume of Lake Murten, Switzerland

|One cubic kilometre or one teralitre

|Approximate volume of rock ejected during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens

|volume of Lake Biel, Switzerland

|volume of Lake Walen, Switzerland

|volume of Lake Zug

|Volume of Lake Zürich

|One cubic mile

|Volume of crude oil consumed by the world in a year

|volume of Lake Brienz

|Volume of the artificial Gatun Lake (Panama Canal)

|Volume of Lake Thun

|volume of Lake Lugano

|Estimated volume of rock ejected during the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo

|volume of Lake Neuchâtel

|Volume of Lake Lucerne

|Volume of Lake Mead, the reservoir of the Hoover Dam

|Volume of Lago Maggiore

|Volume of Lake Constance

|Volume of Lake Geneva

|Estimated volume of rock exploded in eruption of Mount Tambora volcano on 12 April 1815

|Volume of Lake Nasser

|Volume of Fedchenko Glacier and its tributaries

|Estimated volume of the annual net inflow of seawater to the Black Sea (from the Mediterranean Sea via the Bosporus)

|Volume of Lake Onega

|Volume of crude oil on Earth

|Estimated volume of the annual inflow of freshwater to the Black Sea

|Volume of Lake Erie

|Volume of Lake Ladoga

|One petalitre

|Volume of the Aral Sea in 1960

|Volume of Lake Victoria

|Volume of magma erupted by the Toba supervolcano {{val|74000}} years ago

|Volume of Lake Michigan

|Volume of the Fish Canyon Tuff erupted by the La Garita Caldera

|Volume of the asteroid 433 Eros

|Volume of Lake Superior

|Volume of Lake Tanganyika

|Volume of Lake Baikal

|Volume of the Black Sea

|One exalitre

|Volume of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, which contains the deepest point on the Earth's surface

|Volume of Greenland ice cap

|Volume of the Mediterranean Sea

|Volume of water contained in the rings of Saturn (rough estimate)

|Volume of water contained in the Antarctic ice sheet (rough estimate)

|Volume of the Atlantic Ocean and volume of the Indian Ocean (rough estimates)

|Volume of Ceres

|One cubic megametre or one zettalitre—volume of the Pacific Ocean (rough estimate)

|Volume of all oceans on Earth

|Estimated volume of Europa's oceans

|Volume of Pluto

|Volume of the Moon

|Volume of planet Mercury

|Volume of planet Mars

|Volume of planet Venus

|One yottalitre

|Volume of planet Earth

|Volume of all the rocky planets in the Solar System

|Volume of planet Neptune

|Volume of planet Uranus

|Volume of planet Saturn

|One ronnalitre

|Volume of planet Jupiter

|Total volume of all the planets in the Solar System

|One cubic gigametre or one quettalitre

|Volume of the Sun

|volume of Alcyone, brightest star in the PleiadesKaler, Jim, [http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/alcyone.html Alcyone], retrieved 18 November 2008: "radius nearly 10 solar"

|Volume of Arcturus, brightest star in BoötesMozurkewich, 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)

|Volume of Rigel, the brightest star in OrionIts radius is 70 times the Sun's

|Volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun

|Volume of γ Crucis, a red giant in CruxIts radius is 113 times the Sun's.= 11488.213 * 9.4605284 × 10(power of 15) X 1,000,000,000 meters long (appr)

|Volume of Deneb, a white supergiant in CygnusIts radius is estimated to be 200 to 300 times the Sun's

|Volume of η Carinae, a white supergiant in Cygnus

|Estimated volume of S Orionis[http://webviz.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-5?-out.add=.&-source=II/224/cadars&recno=9107 VizeR page for Antares], retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.1e+02 solRad"

|Volume of Antares, a Mira variable in Orion[http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-5?-out.add=.&-source=II/224/cadars&recno=2512 VizeR page for S Orionis], retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.3e+02 solRad"

|Volume of Betelgeuse

|One cubic terametre

|Possible volume of μ Cephei (estimates vary)

|Estimated volume of VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant starHumphreys, Roberta M.; [https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0610433 VY Canis Majoris: The Astrophysical Basis of its Luminosity], arxiv.org, 13 October 2006, page 3, retrieved 18 November 2009: "1800 to 2100 R⊙"

|volume of a sphere which would enclose the orbit of Neptune

|Possible volume of the Heliosphere inside the termination shock

|Daily increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula

|Annual increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula{{frac|4|3}}πr³; core radius r = distance times sin({{frac|2}} angular diameter) = 0.2 light year. Distance = 3.3 ± 0.9 kly; angular diameter = 20 arcseconds; expands 10 milliarcseconds per year.{{Harv|Reed|Balick|Hajian|Klayton|1999}}{{Cite journal

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| first1 = Darren S.

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| first2 = Bruce

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| first3 = Arsen R.

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| first4 = Tracy L.

| last5 = Giovanardi

| first5 = Stefano

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| first7 = Nino

| last8 = Terzian

| first8 = Yervant

| title = Hubble Space Telescope Measurements of the Expansion of NGC 6543: Parallax Distance and Nebular Evolution

| journal = Astronomical Journal

| year = 1999

| volume = 118

| issue = 5

| pages = 2430–2441

| bibcode = 1999AJ....118.2430R

| doi = 10.1086/301091

|arxiv = astro-ph/9907313 | s2cid = 14746840

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|One cubic petametre

|Approximate volume of the Stingray Nebular = 0.08 light years; {{frac|4|3}}πr³ = {{val|1.86|e=45|u=m3}}

|Volume of the bright inner nebula of the Cat's Eye Nebula

|The volume of a Bok globule like Barnard 68{{cite web |author=Michael Szpir |title=Bart Bok's Black Blobs |url=http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/14678 |date=May–June 2001 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030629033609/http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/14678 |archivedate=29 June 2003|publisher=American Scientist |quote=Bok globules such as Barnard 68 are only about half a light-year across and weigh in at about two solar masses |accessdate=19 November 2008}}their size varies: a globule one quarter light year in radius has {{val|5.5|e=46|u=m3}}, one a half light year in radius has {{val|4.4|e=47|u=m3}}, one a light year in radius has {{val|3.5|e=48|u=m3}}

|The volume of a Bok globule one light year across

|One cubic light-year

|Volume of the Oort Cloud, assuming a radius of {{val|50000|u=AU}}

|Volume of the Dumbbell Nebula

|One cubic parsec

|Approximate volume of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) (assuming a radius of 5 light years, sources differ){{Cite APOD |title=NGC 7635: The Bubble |date=October 18, 2006 |access-date=}}Hubble Site, 2000. [http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2000/04/image/a/ An Expanding Bubble in Space]. "diameter of 6 light-years".{{Cite APOD

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|One cubic exametre

|Estimated volume of a small dwarf galaxy like NGC 1705

|Estimated volume of the Local Bubble, assuming a radius of 100 parsecs (~39 million cubic light years)

|Estimated volume of a dwarf galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud

|One cubic kiloparsec

|Volume of a galaxy like the Milky Way

|One cubic zettametre—approximate volume of whole Milky Way including Globes

|Volume of the Local Group

|Volume of the Gemini Void

|One cubic yottametre

|Volume of the Local Void (about {{val|1.4|e=24}} cubic light years)An Atlas of the Universe. [http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/nearsc.html The Nearest Superclusters]. Retrieved 19 November 2008

|Volume of the Virgo Superclusterassuming it is a sphere of 100 million light year radius

|Volume of the Sculptor Void (about {{val|1.1|e=25}} cubic light years)

|Least volume of the Southern Local Supervoid (about {{val|2.2|e=25}} cubic light years){{Citation

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|Volume of the Observable Universe

|One cubic ronnametre

|Lower bound on the volume of the universe based on analysis of WMAPhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605709v2 How Many Universes Do There Need To Be?

|Lower bound on the volume of the entire universe

|One cubic quettametre

|rough upper bound on the physical size of the present universe, a result of the maximum number of Hubble volumes.https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.2924v1.pdf "On Cosmological Implications of Holographic Entropy Bound" p.4