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I think I can answer my own question.  I went to the hardware store
and looked at some quartz-halogen replacement bulbs.  They have what
appears to be a tungsten filament wire inside a quartz tube.  Going
off the deep end, I would say that the resistance of the wire would
limit the current and no ballast is needed.  I would also assume that
the dimmer circuit in halogen lamps is a regular high wattage dimmer.
I noticed on the demo lamp that dimming the light made the
quartz-halogen tube humm loud enough that I could hear it in a noisy
wharehouse type of store.

I looked up halogen in my dictionary.  It said it was one of the very
active chemical elements, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, astatine, or
iodine. How does this apply to a light bulb?
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