Current and charge aren’t quite the same thing. Current is rate that charge goes through a circuit (just like acceleration is the rate of change in velocity… acceleration and velocity aren’t the same thing either, but they are related). Remember, charge doesn’t get used up by electrical components like LEDs or resistors.

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