Pristine Blue's active ingredient is Copper. Copper has been used extensively for algae control in all types of water environments, including swimming pools, for centuries.

Traditional copper forms engineered for swimming pools come with one major problem: staining. Copper does not dissolve easily in water and the fraction of copper which doesn't combine with algae usually deposits on the walls or floor of the pool. In addition, it hasn't been possible to introduce Copper into the water at a high enough level to kill bacteria.

PristineBlue goes a step beyond chelated products with it's unique proprietary base product ET3000. Blended with ET3000 Copper in PristineBlue is fully dissolved, biologically active and can be added to water at concentration high enough to fight algae and bacteria.

The Copper (Cu++) used to formulate PristineBlue has two positive charges. The ET3000 molecule has a large number of negatively charged attachment points.

One of each copper ion's positive charges attaches to the ET3000, leaving the other positive charge biologically active to attract and combine with algae and bacteria. When algae and bacteria come into contact with the copper ion they absorb it and die. The copper is then complexed with the organic matter and is no longer measurable in the water.

To help you see PristineBlue in action, we have developed the following two Flash animations.

Flash movie 1: ET3000 is the special formulated molecule to which the Copper ions (Cu++) are bonded, and held in solution. The negatively charged bacteria is attracted to, and oxidised by, the Copper ions.

Flash movie 2: PristineBlue is self-dispersing due to the positively charged ET3000 molecules which repel each other. As a result, PristineBlue will rapidly disperse itself throughout the pool.