Oxygen is one such element, which exists in nature but in a complex compound that is commonly referred to as air. The air that humans breathe is only partially made up of oxygen, with nitrogen, hydrogen and methane making up the majority of the atmosphere's volume. On the periodic table, there are 109 known elements in the universe.
And in order to cover the most of other countries, they added the 2 dominant languages of west (Spanish) and east (Arabic). I think if there was a rationale in choosing a language as the official language of UN, only Spanish and Arabic are chosen reasonably as they cover more than 50 countries in the world. I am sure the list of official languages in the UN would be quite different if the victorious countries were different.
One of the most commonly spoken languages in the world is French, which has an estimated 160 million speakers. Besides being the official language of France, it is commonly spoken in many other countries around the globe, such as Canada, Belgium, Cameroon, Haiti and Rwanda.