Why do some combustion vehicles only run on a specific type of fuel?

Question

To my knowledge combustion is just burning fuel and if all you need is fire to burn a fuel shouldn’t any type of fuel work in any type of car?

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Answer 1

Kind of –

The M1 Abrams tank can accomplish this

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