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I highly recommend this related article: "How the Sun Shines", by John Bahcall https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009259

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas. A gigantic nuclear furnace.

The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. The sun's not simply made out of gas, no, no, no.

It might be a bit too hot to smell bad...