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Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff from how stuff works dot com

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Speaker 1: where smart happens. Hi and Marshall brain with today's question,

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Speaker 1: what are frankincense and Mr? Frankinsense and murr are both

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Speaker 1: resins or dried tree sap that come from trees, which

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Speaker 1: are common to Somalia. The way that people collect the

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Speaker 1: sap is similar to the way people collect rubber tree

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Speaker 1: sap or pine tree sap. Cutting the tree's bark causes

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Speaker 1: the sap to ooze out of the cut. The sap

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Speaker 1: used to create both frankinsense and mur comes slowly and

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Speaker 1: it's allowed to dry on the tree. The hardened sap

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Speaker 1: is then chipped off and collected and used as frankinsense

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Speaker 1: and mur Both. In the time of the Three Wise

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Speaker 1: Men and today, frankinsense and murr are commonly used to

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Speaker 1: create incense. You mix frankinsense with things like spices, seeds,

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Speaker 1: and roots to create different aromas. Traditionally, you burn the

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Speaker 1: powdered incense with a piece of charcoal in a sense

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