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The first chromatography used was with polar stationary phase and non polar mobile phase, called normal phase. So, later when this was reversed by using polar mobile phase and non polar stationary phase was called reversed phase.

Although reversed phase implies that it is less used, it is not the case. RPLC rose to success around the 1970s as NPLC dropped off.

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