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 Give reasons:

(a) o-nitrophenol is steam volatile while p-nitrophenol not.

(b)Cleavage of phenyl alkyl ether with HI always gives phenol and alkyl iodide

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(a) Due to presence of intramolecular hydrogen bond.

(b) Due to resonance C-O bond of phenyl will acquire double bond character hence difficult to break.  

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