But those little silver particles have run Maker Enterprises, the Metzger brothers' partnership in Los Angeles, into a big regulatory thicket.
Sunrisers' success means that Royal Challengers Bangalore are eliminated despite their having two of the three highest-scoring batsmen in the competition – their captain, Virat Kohli, and the West Indian Chris Gayle, whose 720 runs made him the regular season's top run maker for the third consecutive season and included a single innings of 175 not out, a record for the Twenty20 format.
He also spoke proudly of becoming Durham's record run maker, with more than 8,000 first-class runs.
Hitting 23 fours and a six, he also shared a 94-run fifth-wicket partnership with Collingwood, who hit his fourth half-century of the season to become Durham's highest first-class run maker as his 9,077 runs eclipsed the previous record of 9,055, held by Dale Benkenstein.
He remained, however, the second-highest run maker for Somerset, behind only Nick Compton, and retained the captaincy for the 2014 season.
To win customers and to alleviate the boredom of treadmill running, makers keep adding fringe benefits.
In Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid they have the two highest run-makers in Test history.
The biggest run-makers in the tournament were two 37-year old Australians, with Gilchrist outscored only by his compatriot Matthew Hayden.
The only bright note for them was that Kumar Sangakkara's 39 moved him up to second in the list of run-makers in one-day internationals, above Ricky Ponting and below only Sachin Tendulkar.
During the course of today's innings he also overtook Andrew Strauss and Len Hutton to become England's ninth highest run-maker of all time.
Apollo Management said that it had agreed to acquire Goodman Global Holdings, a family-run maker of air- conditioning and heating equipment, for about $1.43 billion.
