The novel views on passivation and passivity are briefly reviewed, with further explanation of some key details. First, the most common polymerisation mechanism directly transforms an insoluble hydroxide into a cross-linked oxide gel. The Al type passivation corresponds to insulating oxides, and this directly leads to a nearly sealed off gel with just a residual access of the electrolyte to the metal surface. In Fe type passivation, the electronic 3d shells are incomplete, which induces a coexistence of bi- and trivalent monomers, and from elsewhere well-known quantum (or magnetic) effects, a complete ordering can suddenly induce an electronic conduction at the interatomic scale. The different grades of stainless steels or Ni based alloys, and a few other paradoxical observations, are thus explained by the required conjunction of magnetic, chemical and electrochemical features. In parallel, any applied polarisation induces a junction potential at the electrolyte boundary, with electric field, ionic space charges, and local electromigration. All are cancelled in the Faraday cage of a conductive gel, but its adaptation to each potential takes some time. Therefore, the alleged “Mott-Schottky” plots do not detect the electronic space charges of a supposedly semiconductor, but just the local ionic space charges induced by artificial polarisations.