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Orders of magnitude (energy)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ282791 ↗
Source-derived summary

This list compares various energies in joules (J), organized by order of magnitude.

Below 1 J

1 to 105 J

106 to 1011 J

1012 to 1017 J

1018 to 1023 J

Over 1024 J

SI multiples

The joule is named after James Prescott Joule. As with every SI unit named after a person, its symbol starts with an upper case letter (J), but when written in full, it follows the rules for capitalisation of a common noun; i.e., joule becomes capitalised at the beginning of a sentence and in titles but is otherwise in lower case.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1011, 1012, 1017, 1018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Orders, magnitude and energy can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Orders of magnitude (energy)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.