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What is the chemical formula for iron(III) Oxide with explanation, please

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writing the name for Fe2o3 is a bit more challenging since Fe is a transition metal. this means you need to used parenthesis and Roman Numeral to show the charge on the Fe atoms. in these case each Fe atoms has a charge of +3 so we write Fe2o3 as an iron(III) oxide

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