GRINDING WHEEL

A circular grinding wheel has a center point and defines a multiplicity of extraction holes, which, in particular, are circular extraction holes. The center point of each extraction hole is arranged at the point of intersection of a radial line extending from the center point of the grinding wheel with a circle of holes that is arranged concentrically with respect to the center point and that has a radius. At least one of the radial lines is a single-hole radial line, on which the center point of only a single extraction hole is arranged. The center points of all the extraction holes that are arranged on a single-hole radial line lie substantially on a common single-hole circle having a radius. Each radial line comprises the center point of an extraction hole on at least one radius on which the two radial lines that are adjacent to this radial line in the circumferential direction have no center point of an extraction hole.