eli5 – Why is electric current a fundamental quantity but not electric charge? Can’t they both be defined in the other’s terms?

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eli5 – Why is electric current a fundamental quantity but not electric charge? Can’t they both be defined in the other’s terms?

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Electric current is not a ‘fundamental quantity’. It is coloumbs per second (C/s). I am not exactly sure what you mean by fundamental quantity, could you maybe clarify?