What is the difference between static electricity, and static charge?

Question

What is the difference between static electricity, and static charge?

Answer 1

Static Electricity (Charge)is the electricity that gathers on or in an object which can not conduct a current.

Electrical Charge is the amount of electricity that is carried by asubstance.

Answer 2

Static electricity refers to the accumulation of excess electric charge in a region with poor electrical conductivity, such that the charge accumulation persists. The effects of static electricity are familiar to most people because we can see, feel and even hear the spark as the excess charge is neutralized when brought close to a large electrical conductor (for example a path to ground), or a region with an excess charge of the opposite polarity (positive or negative).

Electric charge is a fundamental conserved property of some subatomic particles, which determines their electromagnetic interaction.

The difference is static electricity is a accumulation of both +ve and -ve charges while static charge consists only of either +ve or -ve charges.

Answer 3

Basically the same. Static charges accumulated on an insulator.