Air is not an element. It's a composition of elements far more complicated and variable than water. The building blocks of all living forms. The first passing into physical form of the universal life energy. There's one other highly significant aspect of the elements in the atomic table.
All matter is the same.
Your hand is made of the same stuff as what you would hesitate to put your hand into. Speaking of finding things, I found an extremely interesting article in Texas Monthly magazine. Actually, the article found me. It came to me as a much degenerated photocopy. As a result of reproducing the same processes that initially brought life to this planet, life was restored to dead soil.