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Do brown dwarf 'stars' fuse simple hydrogen (p-p reaction) at all?

I sometimes read that only deuterium-deuterium fusion can occur in brown dwarfs... And maybe deuterium-proton fusion? To He-3? In order to overcome Coulombic repulsion and, occasionally, fuse, protons ...
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