Orders of magnitude (volume)

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
1 cubic centimeter	--	--	1 cm³, 10 cm³, 100 cm³
1 litre (cubic decimeter)	--	--	1 dm³, 10 dm³, 100 dm³
1 cubic meter (1000 litres)	--	--	1 m³, 10 m³, 100 m³
1000 cubic meters (1 million litres)	--	--	1 dam³, 10 dam³, 100 dam³
1 million cubic meters	--	--	1 hm³, 10 hm³, 100 hm³
1 cubic kilometer	--	--	1 km³, 10 km³, 100 km³
1000 cubic kilometers	--	--	10¹² m³ , 10¹³ m³ , 10¹⁴ m³
10¹⁵ cubic metres	--	--	10¹⁵ m³, 10¹⁶ m³, 10¹⁷ m³
10¹⁸ cubic metres	--	--	10¹⁸ m³, 10¹⁹ m³, 10²⁰ m³
10²¹ cubic metres	--	--	10²¹ m³, 10²² m³, 10²³ m³
10²⁴ cubic metres	--	--	10²⁴ m³, 10²⁵ m³, 10²⁶ m³
10²⁷ cubic metres	--	--	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 dekameter and cubic hectometer respectively. The terms in the left-hand column are common terminology.)

Orders of magnitude of other quantities: time, length, area, mass

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