The table lists various objects and units by the order of magnitude of their volume.
thumb|Chain structures in meteorite fragment [[ALH84001]]
thumb|Electron micrograph of icosahedral [[adenovirus]]
thumb|right|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
thumb|California poppy seeds
thumb|right|Mustard seeds
thumb|right|Peas in pods
thumb|right|Measuring spoons of and 1, and teaspoon
thumb|right|Copper measuring jugs of 1 and gill
thumb|right|375 mL stubbie of beer
thumb|right|A -peck apple bag
thumb|A standard 200-litre<br/>(55 US or 44 imp gal) drumthumb|A cubic metre of concrete
thumb|A TEU container
thumb|An Olympic swimming pool
thumb|LZ 129 Hindenburg
thumb|Great Pyramid of Giza
thumb|The Three Gorges Dam
thumb|Sydney Harbour
thumb|Solar System bodies with Earth volume or less
thumb|right|The Cat's Eye Nebula on left (about ) and the dark cloud Barnard 68 at top (about ) are of comparable volumes; the Stingray Nebula between them is smaller with a similar volume as the small yellow light-month radius sphere, about .<!-- figures are very approximate -->
thumb|right|The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) at left with about 520 cubic light years () dwarfs the Dumbbell Nebula's 12 cubic light years () (very approximate figures)
thumb|right|The globular cluster [[Messier 5 at upper left with about 2 million cubic light years () dwarfs the much smaller Bubble Nebula at lower right.]]
Sub-microscopic
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!Volume (m<sup>3</sup>)
!Example
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|The Planck volume
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|One cubic quectometre
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|One cubic rontometre
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|One cubic yoctometre
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|One cubic zeptometre
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|One cubic attometre
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|One cubic femtometre
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|Volume of a proton
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|Classical volume of an electron
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|One cubic picometre
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|One quectolitre
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|One cubic ångström or one rontolitre
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|Volume enclosed by the Van der Waals radius of a hydrogen atom
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|van der Waals volume of a helium atom
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|volume enclosed by the van der Waals radius of a gold atom
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|van der Waals volume of a molecule
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|van der Waals volume of a molecule
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|One cubic nanometre or one yoctolitre
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|One zeptolitre
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|Typical volume of structures on the Martian meteorite ALH84001
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|One attolitre
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|Volume of hypothesised nanobacteria
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|Volume of a typical virus
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Microscopic
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!Volume (m<sup>3</sup>)
!Example
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|One cubic micrometre or one femtolitre
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|Average volume of a platelet
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|Normal volume of a human red blood cell
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|Average volume of a lymphocyte
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|Mean volume of a neutrophil granulocyte
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|Volume of an average monocyte
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|One picolitre
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|One drop from a high resolution colour inkjet printer
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|a very fine grain of sand (0.063 mm diameter, 3 micrograms)
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|One nanolitre
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|A medium grain of sand (0.5 mm diameter, 1.5 milligrams)
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|Volume of a poppy seed of 1-millimetre diameter
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|One cubic millimetre or one microlitre
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|Volume of a mustard seed of 2-millimetre diameter
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|Volume of a small grain of rice 2 mm wide by 5 mm long
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Human measures
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!Volume (m<sup>3</sup>)
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|One imperial minim
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|One US minim
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|Volume of a large grain of rice 3 mm wide by 12 mm long
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|Average volume of a pea
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|One cubic centimetre or one millilitre
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|One imperial fluid scruple
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|One US fluid scruple
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|One sai
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|One imperial fluid drachm
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|One US fluid dram
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|Average human ejaculation
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|One teaspoon
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|One ligula
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|One tablespoon
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|One cubic inch
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|One shaku
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|One imperial fluid ounce
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|One US fluid ounce
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|Average amount of blood lost by a woman during menstruation
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|One cyathus
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|One acetabulum
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|Maximum volume of non-exempt liquids, gels, and aerosols allowed in a U.S. air traveler's carry-on luggage
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|One US gill
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|One quartarius
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|One imperial gill
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|One gō (a common size for serving sake)
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|one Roman hemina or cotyla
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|Volume of stubby or steinie of beer (Europe–330 mL, Canada–341 mL, Japan–350 mL, US–355 mL, Australia–375 mL)
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|Rough volume of the human urinary bladder
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|One US liquid pint
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|One sextarius
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|One US dry pint
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|One imperial pint
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|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
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|One US liquid quart
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|One cubic decimetre or one litre
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|Volume of 1 kilogram of distilled water (at the temperature of maximum density () and standard atmospheric pressure (101.325 kPa))
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|One US dry quart
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|One imperial quart
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|Typical range of automobile engine displacements
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|Human brain cavity
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|One shō (formerly a common sake-bottle size)
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|One US liquid gallon
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|One semimodius
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|One US dry gallon
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|One imperial gallon
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|Approximate volume of the blood in one adult human
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|Average total volume of the lungs of a male human
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|One US peck
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|One imperial peck
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|One urna
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|One to
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|One Ancient Greek amphora
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|One Roman amphora
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|One French amphora
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|One cubic foot
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|One US bushel
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|One imperial bushel
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|One firkin
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|Gasoline fuel tank in a car (Volvo 240)
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|One rundlet
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|Average volume of an adult human
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|One kilderkin
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|One US barrel for cranberries
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|One US dry barrel
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|One US beer barrel, 31 US gallons
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|One US fluid barrel (apart from oil or beer), 31.5 US gallons
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|One oil barrel, 42 US gallons, about one tierce (158–160 L)
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|One imperial barrel, 36 imperial gallons
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|One koku
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|Standard drum size used for shipping bulk cargo
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|One hogshead
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|One puncheon or tertian
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|One butt (an old unit for beer and wine)
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|One culeus
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|One cubic yard
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|One tun (an old unit for beer and wine)
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|One cubic metre, one kilolitre or one stère—volume of a large domestic fridge-freezer (external dimensions)
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|External volume of a standard 20-foot ("TEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 33.1 cubic metres
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|External volume of a standard 40-foot ("FEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 67.5 cubic metres
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Terrestrial
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!Volume (m<sup>3</sup>)
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|Volume of a rear-engine Leyland Titan London double-decker bus
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|Volume of any A Division New York City Subway car
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|One cubic decametre or one megalitre
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|One acre-foot
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|Volume of an Olympic size swimming pool of minimal depth .
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|Volume of each of the nine spheres of the Atomium in Brussels
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|Gas volume in the first zeppelin LZ 1
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|Amount of concrete in Trbovlje Chimney
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|Quebec's 2001 output of maple syrup
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|Typical volume of a large gasometer
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|Volume of the Royal Albert Hall auditorium
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|Volume of gas in the USS Macon (ZRS-5) zeppelin
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|Volume of gas in the Hindenburg zeppelin
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|Volume of crude oil that can be carried aboard the Knock Nevis supertanker
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|Volume of Taipei 101's gross floor space
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|One cubic hectometre, one gigalitre or one kilostère
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|Volume the 1910 Lakeview Gusher oil spilt (the biggest oil gusher in US history)
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|Volume of concrete in the Panama Canal Locks
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|Volume of stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza
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|Approximately amount of mud and clay that slid into the South Nation River valley as a landslide on 20 June 1993
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|Volume of concrete in Hoover Dam
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|Volume of the NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building
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|Volume of chalk excavated in the construction of the Channel Tunnel
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|Volume of Chagan Lake, artificial lake created by nuclear explosion
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|Volume of material in the Gatun Dam, completed in 1913
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|Volume of concrete in the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest concrete structure
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|Volume of Aswan Dam
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|Volume of gas required per day by India in 2005
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|Volume of the Grimsel reservoir
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|Volume of Lake Baldegg, Switzerland
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|Volume of material excavated in the construction of the Panama Canal
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|Volume of Lac de la Gruyère, Switzerland
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|Volume of Lake Halwill, Switzerland
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|Volume of the Great Wall of China
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|Volume of all humans alive on the planet (based on an average mass of 40–70 kg per human)
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|Predicted volume of natural gas required per day by India in 2025
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|One sydharb—volume of Sydney Harbour, Australia
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|Volume of Lake Murten, Switzerland
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|One cubic kilometre or one teralitre
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|Approximate volume of rock ejected during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
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|volume of Lake Biel, Switzerland
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|volume of Lake Walen, Switzerland
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|volume of Lake Zug
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|Volume of Lake Zürich
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|One cubic mile
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|Volume of crude oil consumed by the world in a year
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|volume of Lake Brienz
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|Volume of the artificial Gatun Lake (Panama Canal)
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|Volume of Lake Thun
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|volume of Lake Lugano
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|Estimated volume of rock ejected during the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
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|volume of Lake Neuchâtel
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|Volume of Lake Lucerne
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|Volume of Lake Mead, the reservoir of the Hoover Dam
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|Volume of Lago Maggiore
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|Volume of Lake Constance
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|Volume of Lake Geneva
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|Estimated volume of rock exploded in eruption of Mount Tambora volcano on 12 April 1815
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|Volume of Lake Nasser
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|Volume of Fedchenko Glacier and its tributaries
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|Estimated volume of the annual net inflow of seawater to the Black Sea (from the Mediterranean Sea via the Bosporus)
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|Volume of Lake Onega
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|Volume of crude oil on Earth
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|Estimated volume of the annual inflow of freshwater to the Black Sea
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|Volume of Lake Erie
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|Volume of Lake Ladoga
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|One petalitre
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|Volume of the Aral Sea in 1960
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|Volume of Lake Victoria
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|Volume of magma erupted by the Toba supervolcano years ago
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|Volume of Lake Michigan
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|Volume of the Fish Canyon Tuff erupted by the La Garita Caldera
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|Volume of the asteroid 433 Eros
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|Volume of Lake Superior
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|Volume of Lake Tanganyika
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|Volume of Lake Baikal
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|Volume of the Black Sea
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|One exalitre
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|Volume of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, which contains the deepest point on the Earth's surface
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|Volume of Greenland ice cap
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|Volume of the Mediterranean Sea
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|Volume of water contained in the rings of Saturn (rough estimate)
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|Volume of water contained in the Antarctic ice sheet (rough estimate)
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|Volume of the Atlantic Ocean and volume of the Indian Ocean (rough estimates)
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|Volume of Ceres
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|One cubic megametre or one zettalitre—volume of the Pacific Ocean (rough estimate)
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|Volume of all oceans on Earth
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Astronomical
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!Volume (m<sup>3</sup>)
!Example
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|Estimated volume of Europa's oceans
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|Volume of Pluto
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|Volume of the Moon
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|Volume of planet Mercury
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|Volume of planet Mars
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|Volume of planet Venus
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|One yottalitre
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|Volume of planet Earth
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|Volume of all the rocky planets in the Solar System
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|Volume of planet Neptune
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|Volume of planet Uranus
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|Volume of planet Saturn
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|One ronnalitre
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|Volume of planet Jupiter
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|Total volume of all the planets in the Solar System
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|One cubic gigametre or one quettalitre
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|Volume of the Sun
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|volume of Alcyone, brightest star in the Pleiades
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|Volume of Arcturus, brightest star in Boötes
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|Volume of Rigel, the brightest star in Orion
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|Volume of a red giant the same mass as the Sun
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|Volume of γ Crucis, a red giant in Crux
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|Volume of Deneb, a white supergiant in Cygnus
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|Volume of η Carinae, a white supergiant in Cygnus
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|Volume of Antares, a slow irregular variable in Scorpius
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|Volume of Betelgeuse
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|One cubic terametre
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|Possible volume of μ Cephei (estimates vary)
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|Estimated volume of VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant star
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|Volume of a sphere which would enclose the orbit of Neptune
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|Possible volume of the Heliosphere inside the termination shock
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|Daily increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula
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|One cubic petametre
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|Approximate volume of the Stingray Nebula
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|Volume of the bright inner nebula of the Cat's Eye Nebula
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|The volume of a Bok globule one light year across
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|One cubic exametre
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|Estimated volume of a small dwarf galaxy like NGC 1705
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|Estimated volume of the Local Bubble, assuming a radius of 100 parsecs (~39 million cubic light years)
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|Estimated volume of a dwarf galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud
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|One cubic kiloparsec
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|Volume of a galaxy like the Milky Way
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|One cubic zettametre—approximate volume of whole Milky Way including Globes
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|Volume of the Local Group
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|Volume of the Gemini Void
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|One cubic yottametre
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|Volume of the Local Void (about cubic light years)
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|Volume of the Virgo Supercluster
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|Volume of the Sculptor Void (about cubic light years)
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|Volume of the Observable Universe
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|One cubic ronnametre
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|Lower bound on the volume of the universe based on analysis of WMAP
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|One cubic quettametre
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|rough upper bound on the physical size of the present universe, a result of the maximum number of Hubble volumes.
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