A fermion-boson binary mixture of unpaired electrons coexisting and interac
ting with Cooper pairs treated as real two-electron or two-hole bosons is p
roposed as a model of superconductivity. In thermodynamic equilibrium some
of these bosons are Bose-Einstein-condensed at low-enough temperature. (C)
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