• to come to know, to discover, to find, found
• seasoned, sophisticated, versed, veteran
• experience, observations
• callow, freshwater, green, inexperienced, ingenuous, raw, unfledged, unseasoned, verdant
• callowness, newness, rawness, verdancy
• composition formula, empirical formula, minimum formula
• transcendent, transcendental
• he is an old hands at it