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Electric Charge. Difference between Coulomb and Q?

I'm having a hard time figured out the exact difference between Coulomb and Q.
I know that a coulomb is a charge of 6,241*10^18 elementary charges and 1 elementary charge is equal to -1,602*10^-19 C.

The amount of electric charge that 1 ampere gives is equal to 1 C/t

But according to what I read in my textbook, then Q = I/t.
But wouldn't that make Q = (C/t)/t?

How exactly am I meant to understand Q?
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> The amount of electric charge that 1 ampere gives is equal to 1 C/t

That should be 1 Coloumb per second.

The difference between a Coloumb and Q is the difference between a meter and length (or l).  One is the unit used to measure a quantity, while the other is the symbol for that quantity.  Q is just "charge" while a Coloumb is 6.24\*10*18 times the elementary charge.

>  Q = I/t

This is also a typo; it should be Q = I\*t.  So Charge is current multiplied by time, while a Coloumb is an ampere multiplied by a second.  This is like saying that D = v\*t (distance is velocity multiplied by time), or a meter is a meter per second multiplied by a second, or a mile is a mile per hour multiplied by an hour.