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"Static" means not moveable or at rest. Therefore, static electricity or electrostatics is the part of electromagnetism that deals with electric charges at rest. Static electricity causes charged object to attract or repel other charged objects.
Static electricity obeys the law of conservation of charge, which represents another version of the law of conservation of energy. It states that:
Electric charges may flow from one place to another; however, the total amount of charge of the system remains the same.
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