Orders of magnitude (volume)
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
The table lists various objects and units by the order of magnitude of their volume.
volume (m3) | example |
---|---|
4.22419×10−105 | the Planck volume |
1×10−72 | one cubic yoctometre |
1×10−63 | one cubic zeptometre |
1×10−54 | one cubic attometre |
1×10−45 | one cubic femtometre |
~2.82×10−45 | volume of a proton |
~9.4×10−44 | classical volume of an electron |
1×10−36 | one cubic picometre |
1×10−30 | one cubic ångström |
7.23×10−30 | volume enclosed by the van der Waals radius of a hydrogen atom |
1×10−27 | one cubic nanometre or one yoctolitre |
1×10−24 | one zeptolitre |
5×10−23 | typical volume of structures on the Martian meteorite ALH84001 |
1×10−21 | one attolitre |
4×10−21 | volume of hypothesised nanobacteria |
5×10−21 | volume of a typical virus |
1×10−18 | one cubic micrometre or one femtolitre |
9×10−18 | average volume of a platelet |
9×10−17 | normal volume of a human red blood cell |
2×10−16 | average volume of a lymphocyte |
3.3×10−16 | mean volume of a neutrophil granulocyte |
4.2×10−16 | volume of an average monocyte |
1×10−15 | one picolitre |
2–9×10−15 | one drop from a high resolution colour inkjet printer |
1×10−12 | one nanolitre |
6.2×10−11 | a medium grain of sand (0.5 mm diameter, 1.5 milligrams) |
5×10−10 | volume of a poppy seed of 1-millimetre diameter[1] |
1×10−9 | one cubic millimetre or one microlitre |
4×10−9 | volume of a mustard seed of 2-millimetre diameter |
2×10−8 | volume of a small grain of rice 2 mm wide by 5 mm long |
5.92×10−8 | one imperial minim |
6.16×10−8 | one US minim |
7×10−8 | volume of a large grain of rice 3 mm wide by 12 mm long |
2×10−7 | average volume of a pea |
1×10−6 | one cubic centimetre or one millilitre |
1.18×10−6 | one imperial fluid scruple |
1.23×10−6 | one US fluid scruple |
3.55×10−6 | one imperial fluid drachm |
3.70×10−6 | one US fluid dram |
3.55–5×10−6 | one teaspoon |
1.42–2.0×10−5 | one tablespoon |
1.639×10−5 | one cubic inch |
2.84×10−5 | one imperial fluid ounce |
2.96×10−5 | one US fluid ounce |
3.5×10−5 | average amount of blood lost by a woman during menstruation |
1.18×10−5 | one US gill |
1.42×10−5 | one imperial gill |
1.80×10−4 | one gō (a common size for serving sake) |
3.3–3.75×10−4 | volume of stubby or steinie of beer (Europe–330 ml, Canada–341 ml, Japan–350 ml, US–355 ml, Australia–375 ml) |
4×10−4 | rough volume of the human urinary bladder |
4.73×10−4 | one US liquid pint |
5.51×10−4 | one US dry pint |
5.68×10−4 | one imperial pint |
7.5×10−4 | 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 |
9.46×10−4 | one US liquid quart |
1×10−3 | one cubic decimetre or one litre |
1.000028×10−3 | volume of 1 kilogram of distilled water (at the temperature of maximum density (3.98 °C or 39.16 °F) and standard atmospheric pressure (101.325 kPa)) |
1.10×10−4 | one US dry quart |
1.14×10−3 | one imperial quart |
1.0–8.2×10−3 | typical range of automobile engine displacements |
1.4×10−3 | human brain cavity |
1.80×10−3 | one shō (formerly a common sake-bottle size) |
3.8×10−3 | one US liquid gallon |
4.40×10−3 | one US dry gallon |
4.5×10−3 | one imperial gallon |
5×10−3 | approximate volume of human blood |
6×10−3 | average total volume of the male lungs |
8.81×10−3 | one US peck |
9.09×10−3 | one imperial peck |
2.83×10−2 | one cubic foot |
3.52×10−2 | one US bushel |
3.64×10−2 | one imperial bushel |
3.7–4.2×10−2 | one firkin |
6.8–6.9×10−2 | one rundlet |
7.1×10−2 | average volume of an adult human |
7.4–8.3×10−2 | one kilderkin |
9.55×10−2 | one US barrel for cranberries |
1.16×10−1 | one US dry barrel |
1.17×10−1 | one US beer barrel, 31 US gallons |
1.19×10−1 | one US fluid barrel (apart from oil or beer), 31.5 US gallons |
1.59×10−1 | one oil barrel, 42 US gallons, about one tierce (158–160 l) |
1.64×10−1 | one imperial barrel, 36 imperial gallons |
2×10−1 | standard drum size used for shipping bulk cargo |
2.2–2.5×10−1 | one hogshead |
3.1–3.2×10−1 | one puncheon or tertian |
4.7–4.9×10−1 | one butt (an old unit for beer and wine) |
7.65×10−1 | one cubic yard |
9.5–9.8×10−1 | one tun (an old unit for beer and wine) |
1×100 | one cubic metre, one kilolitre or one stère—volume of a large domestic fridge-freezer (external dimensions) |
3.85×101 | external volume a standard 20-foot ("TEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 33.1 thousand cubic metres |
7.7×101 | external volume a standard 40-foot ("FEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 67.5 thousand cubic metres |
1.05×102 | volume of a rear-engine Leyland Titan London double-decker bus |
1.49×102 | volume of any A Division New York City Subway car |
1×103 | one cubic decametre or one megalitre |
1.233×103 | one acre-foot |
2.5×103 | volume of an Olympic size swimming pool of minimal depth (50 m × 25 m × 2 m). |
3.054×103 | volume of each of the nine spheres of the Atomium in Brussels |
1.13×104 | gas volume in the first zeppelin LZ 1 |
1.1866×104 | amount of concrete in Trbovlje Chimney |
1.56×104 | Quebec's 2001 output of maple syrup |
5.0×104 | typical volume of a large gasometer |
8.5–9.9×104 | volume of the Royal Albert Hall auditorium[2] |
1.84×105 | volume of gas in the USS Macon (ZRS-5) zeppelin |
2.11890×105 | volume of gas in the Hindenburg zeppelin |
6.50×105 | volume of crude oil that can be carried aboard the Knock Nevis supertanker |
9.66×105 | volume of Taipei 101's gross floor space[3] |
1×106 | one cubic hectometre, one gigalitre or one kilostère |
1.4×106 | volume the 1910 Lakeview Gusher oil spilt (the biggest oil gusher in US history) |
1.5644×106 | volume of concrete in the Panama Canal Locks |
2.6006×106 | volume of stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza |
3×106 | approximately amount of mud and clay that slid into the South Nation River valley as a landslide on 20 June 1993 |
3.33×106 | volume of concrete in Hoover Dam |
3.664883×106 | volume of the NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building |
8×106 | volume of chalk excavated in the construction of the Channel Tunnel |
1×107 | volume of Chagan Lake, artificial lake created by nuclear explosion |
1.7×107 | volume of material in the Gatun Dam, completed in 1913 |
2.8×107 | volume of concrete in the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest concrete structure |
4.3×107 | volume of Aswan Dam |
9×107 | volume of gas required per day by India in 2005 |
1.01×108 | volume of the Grimsel reservoir |
1.73×108 | volume of Lake Baldegg, Switzerland |
2.05×108 | volume of material excavated in the construction of the Panama Canal |
2.2×108 | volume of Lac de la Gruyère, Switzerland |
2.85×108 | volume of Lake Halwill, Switzerland |
3.20–3.35×108 | volume of the Great Wall of China |
3–5×108 | volume of all humans alive on the planet (based on an average mass of 40–70 kg per human) |
4×108 | predicted volume of natural gas required per day by India in 2025 |
5×108 | one sydharb—volume of Sydney Harbour, Australia[4] |
6.93×108 | volume of Lake Murten, Switzerland |
1×109 | one cubic kilometre or one teralitre |
1.2×109 | approximate volume of rock ejected during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens |
3.9×109 | volume of Lake Zürich |
4.168×109 | one cubic mile |
5×109 | volume of crude oil consumed by the world in a year |
5.2×109 | volume of the artificial Gatun Lake (Panama Canal) |
6.5×109 | volume of Lake Thun |
1×1010 | estimated volume of rock ejected during the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo |
1.45×1010 | volume of Lake Lucerne |
3.52×1010 | volume of Lake Mead, the reservoir of the Hoover Dam |
3.7×1010 | volume of Lago Maggiore |
5.5×1010 | volume of Lake Constance |
8.89×1010 | volume of Lake Geneva |
1×1011 | estimated volume of rock exploded in eruption of Mount Tambora volcano on 12 April 1815 |
1.44×1011 | volume of Fedchenko Glacier and its tributaries |
1.33×1011 | volume of Lake Nasser |
2×1011 | estimated volume of the annual net inflow of seawater to the Black Sea (from the Mediterranean Sea via the Bosporus) |
2.8×1011 | volume of Lake Onega |
~3×1011 | volume of crude oil on Earth |
3.2×1011 | estimated volume of the annual inflow of freshwater to the Black Sea |
4.84×1011 | volume of Lake Erie |
8.37×1011 | volume of Lake Ladoga |
1×1012 | one petalitre |
1.1×1012 | volume of the Aral Sea in 1960 |
2.76×1012 | volume of Lake Victoria |
2.8×1012 | volume of magma erupted by the Toba supervolcano 74000 years ago |
4.918×1012 | volume of Lake Michigan |
5×1012 | volume of the Fish Canyon Tuff erupted by the La Garita Caldera |
5.5×1012 | volume of the asteroid 433 Eros |
1.2232×1013 | volume of Lake Superior |
1.84×1013 | volume of Lake Tanganyika |
2.36×1013 | volume of Lake Baikal |
5.5×1014 | volume of the Black Sea |
1×1015 | one exalitre |
1×1015 | volume of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, which contains the deepest point on the Earth's surface |
2.6×1015 | volume of Greenland ice cap |
3.7×1015 | volume of the Mediterranean Sea |
3×1017 | volume of the Atlantic Ocean and volume of the Indian Ocean (rough estimates) |
4.5×1017 | volume of Ceres |
1×1018 | one cubic megametre or one zettalitre—volume of the Pacific Ocean (rough estimate) |
1.37×1018 | volume of all oceans on Earth |
3×1018 | estimated volume of Europa's oceans |
6.4×1018 | volume of Pluto |
2.2×1019 | volume of the Moon |
6.1×1019 | volume of planet Mercury |
1.6×1020 | volume of planet Mars |
9.28×1020 | volume of planet Venus |
1×1021 | one yottalitre |
1.08×1021 | volume of planet Earth |
2.25×1021 | volume of all the rocky planets in the solar system |
6.38×1022 | volume of planet Neptune |
7.02×1022 | volume of planet Uranus |
9.23×1023 | volume of planet Saturn |
1.53×1024 | volume of planet Jupiter |
2.59×1024 | total volume of all the planets in the solar system |
1×1027 | one cubic gigametre |
1.41×1027 | volume of the Sun |
~1×1030 | volume of Alcyone, brightest star in the Pleiades[5] |
~1.7×1031 | volume of Arcturus, brightest star in Boötes[6] |
3.4×1032 | volume of Rigel, the brightest star in Orion[7] |
~5×1032 | volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun |
1.4×1033 | volume of γ Crucis, a red giant in Crux[8][9] |
~1×1034 | volume of Deneb, a white supergiant in Cygnus[10] |
6.4×1034 | volume of η Carinae, a white supergiant in Cygnus[10] |
1.3×1035 | estimated volume of S Orionis[11] |
1.5×1035 | volume of Antares, a Mira variable in Orion[12] |
~2.75×1035 | volume of Betelgeuse |
1×1036 | one cubic terametre |
4×1036 | possible volume of µ Cephei (estimates vary) |
8×1036 | estimated volume of VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant star[13] |
6–10×1039 | possible volume of the Heliosphere inside the termination shock |
1.1×1041 | daily increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula[14] |
4×1043 | annual increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula[14][15] |
1×1045 | one cubic petametre |
~1.7×1045 | approximate volume of the Stingray Nebula[16] |
~2.7×1046 | volume of the bright inner nebula of the Cat's Eye Nebula[14] |
5.5×1046 | the volume of a Bok globule like Barnard 68[17][18] |
4.4×1047 | the volume of a Bok globule one light year across[17][18] |
8.47×1047 | one cubic light-year |
~1.7×1048 | volume of the Oort Cloud, assuming a radius of 50000 AU |
~1.6×1049 | volume of the Dumbbell Nebula |
2.94×1049 | one cubic parsec |
4.4×1050 | approximate volume of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) (assuming a radius of 5 light years, sources differ)[19][20][21] |
1×1054 | one cubic exametre |
3×1055 | estimated volume of a small dwarf galaxy like NGC 1705 |
3.3×1055 | estimated volume of the Local Bubble, assuming a radius of 100 parsecs (~39 million cubic light years) |
3×1058 | estimated volume of a dwarf galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud |
2.94×1058 | one cubic kiloparsec |
~3.3×1061 | volume of a galaxy like the Milky Way |
1×1063 | one cubic zettametre—approximate volume of whole Milky Way including Globes |
~5×1068 | volume of the Local Group |
6.7×1071 | volume of the Gemini Void |
1×1072 | one cubic yottametre |
1.2×1072 | volume of the Local Void (about 1.4×1024 cubic light years)[22] |
3.5×1072 | volume of the Virgo Supercluster[23] |
1×1073 | volume of the Sculptor Void (about 1.1×1025 cubic light years)[22] |
2×1073 | least volume of the Southern Local Supervoid (about 2.2×1025 cubic light years)[24] |
3.4×1080 | volume of the Observable Universe |
7.1×1081 | lower bound on the volume of the universe based on analysis of WMAP[25] |
6.7×1083 | lower bound on the volume of the entire universe |
~1×10113 | rough upper bound on the physical size of the present universe, a result of the maximum number of Hubble volumes.[26] |
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 198000 square metres floor space from Structurae multiplied by the "Slab to Slab Height" of 4.20 metres from taipei-101.com.tw gives 831600 cubic metres. Floors one to eight can be approximated as 4300 square metres (from [1]) times 8 times 4.2 metres, or an additional 134400 cubic metres, giving an estimated 966000 cubic metres.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Kaler, Jim, Alcyone, retrieved 18 November 2008: "radius nearly 10 solar"
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Its radius is 70 times the Sun's
- ↑ Its radius is 113 times the Sun's.
- ↑ = 11488.213 * 9.4605284 × 10(power of 15) X 1000000000 meters long (appr)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Its radius is estimated to be 200 to 300 times the Sun's
- ↑ VizeR page for Antares, retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.1e+02 solRad"
- ↑ VizeR page for S Orionis, retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.3e+02 solRad"
- ↑ 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⊙"
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 4⁄3πr3; core radius r = distance times sin(1⁄2 angular diameter) = 0.2 light year.Distance = 3.3 ± 0.9 kly; angular diameter = 20 arcseconds; expands 10 milliarcseconds per year.(Reed et al. 1999)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ r = 0.08 light years; 4⁄3πr3 = 1.86×1045 m3
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 their size varies: a globule one quarter light year in radius has 5.5×1046 m3, one a half light year in radius has 4.4×1047 m3, one a light year in radius has 3.5×1048 m3
- ↑ APOD 2006
- ↑ Hubble Site, 2000. An Expanding Bubble in Space. "diameter of 6 light-years".
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 An Atlas of the Universe. The Nearest Superclusters. Retrieved 19 November 2008
- ↑ assuming it is a sphere of 100 million light year radius
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605709v2 How Many Universes Do There Need To Be?
- ↑ http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.2924v1.pdf "On Cosmological Implications of Holographic Entropy Bound" p.4