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the roman numeral indicates the charge of the ion in question. Some ions have can have various charges such as Iron and Manganese

It is just a convention to use Roman Numerals, for example Ferrous III oxide, rather than Ferrous 3 oxide, probably because most of the original chemical names are Latin (Ferrous, Ferrum, Ferric all meaning Iron for example).

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