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.
Precipitation hardening, or age hardening, is produced by solution treating. and quenching an alloy in which a second phase is in solid solution at the elevated temperature but precipitates upon quenching and aging at a lower temperature.Usually there is atomic matching, or coherency, between the lattices of the precipitate and the matrix,