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.
hardening - abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue. 2. hardening - the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; the hardening of concrete; he tested the set of the glue. curing, solidification, solidifying, set. congealment, congelation - the process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing.