What is the difference between static and current electricity????

Question

What is the difference between static and current electricity????

Answer 1

Current electricity is moving through a wire, like current in a river

static electricity is built up in one place, it stays in one place, till it is discharged

Answer 2

Household "current" is AC alternating current.Voltage is about 120vac at the plugs and 240vac at the meter...

Static electricity is DC direct current. For electricity to jump

1 mm in the air takes about 1000v...when you shuffle across your carpet in the winter and a 3 mm spark zaps ya ..you just absorbed 3000vdc...It was shocking wasn't it...(i had to throw that in)...Anyway have a good one from the E...

Answer 3

Electric current is moving charges (protons, electrons, ions, etc.), commonly relative to an electric circuit.

Static electricity refers to objects that have a net negative or positive charge and the charges of the objects are not moving from or into the object  (i.e., they are 'static')

Answer 4

Static electricity refers to the accumulation of excess electric charge in a region with poor electrical conductivity (an insulator), such that the charge accumulation persists while Direct current (DC or "continuous current") is the unidirectional flow of electric charge. Direct current is produced by such sources as batteries, thermocouples, solar cells, and commutator-type electric machines of the dynamo type.