1 Clinical nurse specialist (CNS) â Working in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, private offices, and community-based settings, CNSs handle a wide range of physical and mental health problems. 2  They also work in consultation, research, education, and administration.
I pass this heat treatment definition along until I'm corrected or find a more succinct, better one. Heat treatment is the controlled heating and cooling of a metal in order to change its properties. Forging is controlled heating and cooling but is not considered a heat treatment by metallurgists, probably because of the plastic deformation involved.
Various heat treatment processes involve carefully controlled heating and cooling of metal. Steel, for example, is commonly heat treated for use in a variety of commercial applications. Common objectives of heat treatment are to: Increase strength. Increase hardness. Improve toughness. Improve machining.